The Indo-British Ensemble - Curried Jazz 1969

In 1969, the imaginative indie record producer, and jazz-lover, Mark Sutton, who owned his own recording studio in Soho, gathered together some of the finest session jazz musicians working in London together with husband and wife, Dev and Sitara Kumar to record a series of what we might today call "fusion". The result was "Curried Jazz". The producer for the sessions was Ken Barnes and his notes together with an extract of an interview with noted Sitarist (and father of Norah Jones) Ravi Shankar and the arranger on this session Victor Graham are included in the notes. The original release was unleashed on an unsuspecting jazz world that didn't quite know what to make of it. 

Line-up / Musicians

Dev Kumar/sitar
Chris Karan/tabla
Sitara Kumar/tambura
Ray Swinfield/flute
Kenny Wheeler/flugelhorn
Jeff Clyne/bass
Bill Eyden/drums

Discography

Curried Jazz 1969

1.Yaman (The Colonel's Lady)
2.Lalit (Meeting of the Twain)
3.Bhimpalazi (Looking Eastward to the Blues)
4.Pahari (University Raga) 


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