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'''John Mayer''' (28 October 1930 – 9 March 2004) was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of [[jazz]] with Indian music in the British-based group Indo-Jazz Fusions with the Jamaican-born saxophonist [[Joe Harriott]].<br />
[[File:John Henry Mayer.jpg|thumb|Gravestone in [[St Pancras and Islington Cemetery]]]]<br />
Mayer was born in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[Bengal]], [[British Raj|British India]], to an [[Anglo-Indian]] father and Tamil mother. After studying with [[Phillipe Sandre]] in Calcutta and [[Melhi Mehta]] in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's [[Royal Academy of Music]] in 1952, where he studied composition with [[Matyas Seiber]], as well as comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures.<br />
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He worked as a violinist with the [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]] (1953–58) and then with the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] (1958–65), but was also composing fusions of Hindustani classical and Western classical forms fused with jazz undertones from 1952 onwards. His Violin Sonata was performed by [[Yehudi Menuhin]] in 1955.<br />
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In the 1960s he worked extensively with the [[Jamaica]]n-born jazz musician [[Joe Harriott]], with whom he formed the group Indo-Jazz Fusions, a ten-piece featuring a jazz quintet and five Indian musicians. The new incarnation of the band, called John Mayer's Indo Jazz Fusions, was revived in the 1990s by his students Richard Dray, Will Joss, and Simon Gray, then led by Mayer himself, and continued to play live gigs—featuring his son Jonathan Mayer on sitar—until John's death.<br />
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The Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Quintet composed the distinctive theme tune, "Acka Raga", for the early episodes of the BBC quiz show ''[[Ask the Family]]'', which was broadcast between 1967 and 1984. The theme featured Mayer on sitar.<br />
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From 1989 onwards, Mayer, who lived in north London, taught composition at [[Birmingham Conservatoire]] where he introduced the BMus Indian music course in 1997.<br />
In March 2004, Mayer was hit by a car in North London and fatally injured. He was 74.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=1079642692 John Mayer page]<br />
*[http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,12723,1168517,00.html ''Guardian'' obituary]<br />
*[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-mayer-p103096/biography John Mayer | All Music]<br />
*[http://www.johnmayercomposer.co.uk/ JohnMayerComposer.co.uk]<br />
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