![]() When the conductor Joseph Newman left HMV in 1950 to settle in Australia, Manohari moved on to play at Firpo"s with his own band. ![]() He had already tried his hand at the English key flute, the clarinet and the mandolin, but now he decided to learn the saxophone in order to be able to play at nightclubs. Through fellow musicians such as Francisco Casanovas, conductor at the Symphony Orchestra and band-leader at Firpo"s Restaurant, George Banks, trumpet player at the Grand Hotel, and others, Manohari was introduced to the Calcutta nightclub scene. He also played flute and piccolo at the Calcutta Symphony Orchestra. ![]() From classical music, he started playing Hindi and Bengali songs for the HMV orchestra, since Newman arranged music for many composers like Kamal Dasgupta, South Doctorate Burman, Timir Baran and Ravi Shankar. In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.
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