Search results for "Shankar"

Ravi Shankar Project: Village Dance (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music May 14, 09

Passable, yet somewhat unengaging, Ravi Shankar Project's "Village Dance" is a track that sounds like the production ...

Shankar: Paper Nut (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music May 29, 08

When the esoteric German jazz label ECM started focusing some of its attention on world music jazz, L. Shankar was on...

Shankar: Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 29, 08

The Indian violin virtuoso Shankar seems to suffer a chronic identity crisis. Over the years, he has been variously c...

Ravi Shankar/Philip Glass: Ragas In Minor Scale (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 14, 09

"Ragas in Minor Scale," performed by master musicians Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, is an interesting slice of East-...

Shakti: La Danse Du Bonheur (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music June 04, 08

In the mid-1970s, "La Danse Du Bonheur" was a real showstopper in concert for Shakti. When the modern version of the ...

Bill Laswell: Lost Roads (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 19, 08

The personnel of this 1988 recording is impressive, but also a bit ominous … as promising as a bad day at the United ...

Bill Laswell: Lost Roads (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 20, 08

Bill Laswell is deservedly renowned as a musician and as a producer of some of the most diverse material you will lik...

Herbie Hancock and Ravi Shankar Hold East-West Musical Summit posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 25, 09

Brian Dwyer recently reported here on Jazz Utsav, a major Indian jazz festival centered in Delhi. Now he fills us in...

Shakti: Face to Face (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music June 02, 08

Though John McLaughlin never admitted it, the tunes on Natural Elements were written to appeal to a wider audience. A...

Shakti with John McLaughlin: What Need Have I For This – What Need Have I For That – I Am Dancing At The Feet Of My L... (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 09, 08

There was a time when you could go into a Sears store and find jazz and progressive music in a well- stocked record d...

Shakti: Joy (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

I am sure the fans in South Hampton on Long Island that night in 1975 had no clue what was in store for them when Sha...

Shakti: Isis (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

"Isis" originally appeared on Shakti's album A Handful of Beauty. At first, it is a sad ballad. Its opening theme is ...

Shakti: India (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

"India" originally appeared on Shakti's A Handful of Beauty album, which has been very difficult to obtain after its ...

Shakti: Peace of Mind (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 17, 08

With Shakti, John McLaughlin introduced a newly designed acoustic guitar commissioned from legendary luthier Abe Wech...

Trilok Gurtu: Shobharock (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music March 26, 08

The amazing percussionist Trilok Gurtu first came to prominence with the world music group Oregon. He would late...

Remember Shakti: Luki (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music April 22, 08

"Luki" is as close as John McLaughlin would ever get to playing on a pop song. Of course, the tune is an Indian pop s...

John McLaughlin: Guardian Angels (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music September 26, 08

"Guardian Angels" is only 52 seconds long, but is important in the John McLaughlin chronology. It opens this album, u...

John McLaughlin: Desire and the Comforter (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music September 26, 08

"The Unknown Dissident" and "Desire and the Comforter" are the best two cuts from Electric Dreams. "Desire and the Co...

Shakti: Bridge of Sighs (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

"Bridge of Sighs," which originally appeared on Shakti's Natural Elements album, has lots of deep and dark minor funk...

Shakti: Mind Ecology (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 22, 08

"Mind Ecology" appeared on Shakti's swansong album for Columbia Records, Natural Elements, which was a whack at tryin...

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