life:
Ravi Shankar died on Tuesday, Dec. 11, in southern California. He was 92.
In 1957, LIFE magazine published a couple of pictures of Shankar playing in a “sitar jam session” with jazz greats like Gillespie and pianist Willie “the Lion” Smith in New York City, at a 1956 party in his honor thrown by jazz historian Marshall Stearns. These photos were actually from the LIFE photographer Paul Schutzer’s first (of many) assignments for the magazine.