In the category of unusual entertainers, there are few who could hold a candle to Korla Pandit. There was the jeweled turban. The hypnotizing gaze into the TV camera. And the exotic organ playing that ...

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This week on Global Notes we'll spotlight keyboardist Lance Kaufman, an artist who pays homage to Korla Pandit, a man many considered the "Godfather of Exotica" music. In 1996 Kaufman released the ...

Marin has been home to some fascinating characters over the decades, but probably no one has been as mysterious and exotic as Korla Pandit, an organ-playing, turban-wearing sex symbol of 1950s daytime ...

In the early 1950s, thousands of Bay Area housewives were mesmerized by a handsome young organ-playing Indian sage who gazed seductively at them out of their console TVs. The dreamy-eyed keyboardist ...

It often happens that powerful truths are masked in fiction and illusion. In the case of Korla Pandit, dubbed the “Godfather of Exotica,” pretext defined the subtext of deep personal truths. Sept. 29 ...

Organist Korla Pandit was an alluring enigma a television pioneer and the godfather of exotica music He never spoke a word on 900 episodes of his groundbreaking 1950s TV program but captured the ...

Exotica icon Korla Pandit was a Hammond organ virtuoso with a signature look: Nehru jackets, smoky eye makeup, and bejeweled turbans. For their intriguing profile, codirectors John Turner and Eric ...

Sometimes a film’s topic is enough incentive for Don’t Knock the Rock film festival co-curator Tiffany Anders. That’s certainly true of “Korla,” one of the most intriguing selections of this year’s ...

Cult figures from Townes Van Zandt to Captain Beefheart to Korla Pandit are represented in the rollout of limited-edition LP collectibles, too, along with composer John Williams and jazz great Ahmad ...