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John Coltrane was obsessed with India; Miles Davis would stay up for days on end listening to his tabla player; Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz all spent several months in Bombay in the 1950s; Charles Mingus had his ashes scattered in the Ganges. For decades, jazz musicians have bought into the modes, polyrhythms and extended time signatures of Indian music. This collection samples the fruits of these Indo-jazz fusions recorded by Indophile Westerners and jazz-literate Indians alike -- both the exotic and the intellectual, the rootsy and the genteel, the ethereal and the seriously funky. Dig the patter of the tablas, the purr of the tamboura and the liquid funk of the sitar as you enter the Bombay Jazz Palace...
We at Outcaste have dug deep to bring you The Bombay Jazz Palace, a retrospective snapshot of the long gone venue that played host to this new sound - collecting some of the most famed tracks to come out of this era. Sitars and trumpets, tablas and jazz snares, composed by true musical innovators including the jazz guitar/sitar style of Volker Kriegel, the kitsch piano scats of Dave Mackay & Vicky Hamilton and the blaxploitation tabla beats of Lalo Schifrin. (liner notes)
Released 31st July on Outcaste Records. Harv & Sunny (aka Sutrasonic) at Outcaste Records invite you along to the Bombay Jazz Palace, where a delightful array of Eastern influenced, down-tempo jazz/electronica is waiting upon your arrival. So no, its not some exotic porn den - you're only going to get jazz 'n table at this hotel. Worth a look in. - liner notes
trax:
1. Paul Horn & Nexus - Latin Tala 2. Volker Kriegel - Zoom 3. Georges Garvarenz - Haschish Party 4. Dave Mackay & Vicky Hamilton - Blues for Hari 5. The Dave Pike Set - Raga Jeera Swara 6. Between - Contemplation 7. Lalo Schifrin - Secret Code 8. Grupo Batuque - Tabla Samba 9. Yves Hyatt - Path To Ascension 10. Shocking Blue - Acka Raga 11. Shanker Family & Friends - Dispute & Violence 12. Shankar-Jaikishan - Bairagi 13. Ananda Shankar - Universal Magic 14. Muhavishla Ravi Hatchud & the Indo Jazz Following - Bombay Palace Part 1