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shankar jaikishan - raga jazz style - outernational sounds - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. Raga Todi
2. Raga Bhairav
3. Raga Malkauns
4. Raga Kalavati
5. Raga Tilak Kamod
6. Raga Miyan Malhar
7. Raga Bairagi
8. Raga Jaijaiwanti
9. Raga Mishra Pilu
10. Raga Shivranjami
11. Raga Bhairavi

Never before reissued, this legendary 1968 EMI recording is a revered Indian jazz rarity; a collectors holy grail.

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Raga Jazz Style is an original Indian excursion into Indo-jazz fusion. A one-away recording from the almost unknown Bombay jazz scene, it is among the few jazz LPs to hail from the subcontinent.

Closely contemporary with the UK-based explorations of Amancio DSilva, John Mayer and Joe Harriott, Raga Jazz Style takes the melodic, scale-based raga system of Indian classical music and marries it with a swinging jazz rhythm section assembled by Bollywood's most highly acclaimed musical directors, the soundtrack composing duo Shankar Singh and Jaikishan Panchal.

Singh and Panchal were a dominant force in Hindi film music from the late 1940s onwards. Shankar had been trained in classical tabla, while Jaikishan was an expert harmonium player. They worked together on well over a hundred films, and their innovative compositions and orchestral scoring revolutionised the music of the nascent Bollywood industry. Central to their sound was regular collaborator Sebastian D Souza. From 1952 onwards, DSouza would work on every Shankar Jaikishan soundtrack, eventually becoming Bollywood's most coveted musical arranger.