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Article: Extended Analysis

Tarun Balani: Sacred World

Read "Tarun Balani: Sacred World" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Jazz fans of a certain age were most likely introduced to the world of Indian music via the recordings of John McLaughlin who, with the group Shakti, introduced American listeners to the dazzling virtuosity of musicians such as violinist L. Shankar, and percussionist Zakir Hussain. Shakti's music extended the compositional style that characterized his previous group, ...

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Article: Jazz in the Aquarian Age

Herbie Mann: An Amalgamation of Everything

Read "Herbie Mann:  An Amalgamation of Everything" reviewed by Bob Kenselaar


[Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from everywhere. When I asked him in this 1978 interview where music in general was heading, he talked about a broad mix--"an amalgamation of everything"--which might be a good way to describe Mann's overall career, except that it doesn't account for ...

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Article: Album Review

George Brooks Summit: Spirit and Spice

Read "Spirit and Spice" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


The road taken by saxophonist, George Brooks on Spirit and Spice may not be new, and is far from the glamorous one that guitarist John McLaughlin blazed through in the 1970s and '80s, with various incarnations of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. However, it remains a significant one if a musician playing in a Western idiom is willing ...

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Natural Elements

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Mind Ecology; Face to Face; Come On Baby Dance With Me; The Daffodil and the Eagle; Happiness is Being Together; Bridge of Sighs; Get Down and Sruti; Peace of Mind.

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Electric Dreams

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Guardian Angels; Miles Davis: Electric Dreams, Electric Sighs; Desire and the Comforter; Love and Understanding; Singing Earth; The Dark Prince; The Unknown Dissident.

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The Mind Electric

Label: String Theory
Released: 1986


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