Jazz Articles about Amancio D'Silva

Amancio D'Silva: Konkan Dance

by Chris May
February 25, 2006

After decades of neglect, the work of Goan-born guitarist Amancio D'Silva (1936-96) edged back towards the mic last summer with the re-release of his 1969 cross-cultural masterpiece, Integration. A pioneering blend of Indian raga, hard bop and early electric Miles, plus fainter traces of ska, rembetika, Link Wray, Ennio Morricone and more, Integration featured the recently arrived in London guitarist alongside some of Britain's most inventive jazz musicians, including saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr, as did his other ...

Amancio D'Silva: Integration

by Chris May
August 24, 2004

This is a really thrilling, wonderful and profoundly enjoyable album--a trailblazing and stirring adventure in world music and world jazz recorded long before either term was invented.

Made in '69, in London, by Indian guitarist Amancio D'Silva and four of Britain's finest jazzmen, it serves up a chili-rich dish of hard bop, Indian raga, ska, early electric Miles, a little rembetika, Link Wray and Willis Gator Jackson... and Ennio Morricone spaghetti western scores! Reissued as part of Universal's ...