Pawan Kumar died in a road accident in 2001. He was a fabulous player of the Punjab gharana. In this recording made by Lowell Lybarger in 1999 he plays one of my favourite gats, a char-darje-ki-gat composed by Nabi Bakhsh Khan. It is a single gat played in four different lays. Before embarking on the piece he turns the gat into two separate tukras. His playing is full of charm and character, and totally without pretension.