Influence of jazz music in bollywood

                The bollywood was influenced by the jazz music in 1950’s when there was a larger number of great musicians enter into fields to earn a living. Going back to 1950 and 60 the Goan musicians like Frank fernand, Sebastian D, souza and Antony Gonsalves brought a great change in the musical trend by using the jazz music in the Indian classical music in Indian music. Many of them have given importance to jazz music at the time. The composer like Naushad, OP Nayyar, and Shankar Jaikishen, Laxmikant Pyarelal and RD Burman and also singer sonu nigam was incorporated to the music in 2008 in his album. All the talented people have contributed to the great revolution the music field of bollywood. The one earliest example for use of jazz in bollywood is the song “mera naam chin chin choo” from the film Howrah Bridge.