more good listening

[Judy Wood]

Got it on as I work through prosaic emails - much better place for me.

Judith M. Herr
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925-989-3723 (cellular)


-----Original Message-----
From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Michael
Eisenstadt
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 5:54 AM
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: more good listening


the 24 hour Indian music orgy I spoke of yesterday is
still on and will play until 5.45 pm Friday on WHRB

if your sound card is working check it out at
http://www.whrb.org

the program notes supply this background:

6:00 pm The Shakti/Indo-Jazz Fusion Orgy

Among the many "fusions" of jazz and other musics that
took place in the 1970s, Shakti stands alone. While
other artists such as Dave Brubeck had dabbled in Near,
Far and Southeastern Asian musics, there had been no
real long-term experiment pairing musicians from East
and West. John McLaughlin’s group Shakti, featuring a
young Zakir Hussain, L. Shankar, and T.H. "Vikku"
Vinayakram, united not merely the jazz and Indian music
world, but also the two main division of Indian music.
Zakir is a main percussionist in the Hindustani (North
Indian) tradition, while Shankar and Vikku come from
the Karnatic (South Indian) traditions. The result is
a new entity, charged with the energy of all four great
virtuosos in the prime of their youthful energy.

We present both Shakti’s 1970s releases and the 1990s
"Remember Shakti" albums (featuring the mandolinist U.
Shrivinas for Shankar and Vikku’s son V. Sevelganesh
on Karnatic percussion), as well as important recordings
featuring the members in other jazz, Indo-jazz fusion,
and Indian Classical contexts.