Search results for "Zakir Hussain"

Zakir Hussain: Anisa (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 19, 08

Making Music was Zakir Hussain's first solo release. It represented an important breakthrough in the world-jazz-fusio...

Tabla Beat Science: Audiomaze (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 19, 08

In Western music we have come to view the percussionist as providing accompaniment. The "serious music" repertoire (...

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...

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 ...

Nicky Skopelitis: Tarab (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 17, 08

This is some far-out shit, man. The bass is vibrating my innards. I feel like I am sitting next to one of those cars ...

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: Wayne's Way (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music February 24, 09

"Wayne's Way" is John McLaughlin's tribute to Wayne Shorter. Dennis Chambers's backbeat and Zakir Hussain's insistent...

Mahavishnu: When Blue Turns Gold (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music December 07, 08

If you can always count on getting thrown a curve, is it still a curve? I ask because you can always count on John Mc...

John McLaughlin: Dear Dalai Lama (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 20, 08

Industrial Zen was John McLaughlin's last studio album for Verve, the once-great jazz label which lost its direc...

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...

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 ...

Remember Shakti: Giriraj Sudha (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 20, 09

Guitarist John McLaughlin's group Remember Shakti, which he co-leads with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, has had two li...

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...

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...

Remember Shakti: Mukti (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music March 21, 09

Remember Shakti came together as an officially sponsored unit to tour Europe in celebration of the 50th anniversary o...

Remember Shakti: The Wish (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

Shakti, John McLaughlin's acoustic Indo-fusion group of the mid-'70s, couldn't sell any records. McLaughlin's label C...

John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan: Ganesha's Jubilee Dance (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music September 20, 08

The two albums recorded by John Handy and Ali Akbar Khan, Karuna Supreme (1975) and Rainbow (1980), are among the mos...

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: 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 ...

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