Search results for "Shankar"
Ravi Shankar Project: Village Dance (Rating: 83/100) posted in Music May 14, 09Passable, 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, 08When 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, 08The 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, 08In 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, 08The 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, 08Bill 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, 09Brian 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, 08Though 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, 08There 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, 08I 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, 08With 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, 08The 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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