Thursday 16 May 2013

Shankar Jaikishan feat. Rais Khan: Raga Jazz Style (1968)

Raga Jazz Style

'Raga Jazz Style' isn't a soundtrack. However it's a Shankar Jaikishan album, featuring a host of top jazz musicians with long track records in Bollywood; Manohari Singh, Leslie Godinho, Sebastian D'Souza and Lucilla Pacheco to name a few. My knowledge of Indian Jazz is sadly lacking, therefore I'm unable to comment on it in that context. But I have to say I think this is a pretty darn wonderful LP. I'd be interested to hear the views of any aficionados out there.

I will undoubtedly be investigating further, as increasingly I've been wanting to find out more about the actual musicians, jazz and otherwise, working in Bollywood. Ideally I'd have done so before posting this, but as it's been such a long time since the last one I thought I'd leave this gem as is.

Track listing:
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 Shivranjani
11. Raga Bhairavi

7 comments:

  1. found this on a cd ages ago but what a lovely album...
    indian classical music being monophonic and to interpret into polyphonic is a great achievement..
    thanks PC
    Anshul

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  2. welcome back PC sir, great album though unlike to OST but a gift for Shankar Jaikishan fans.

    Adv.vikram singh

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  3. Well this not really Indian Jazz.
    It is using Jazz instruments
    to play Indian ragas.

    Indian Jazz is just a copy of western style.
    This might be called Fusion.

    I have read the Coltrane used indian ragas in his work and his son has continued. There are also several
    students of Ali Akbar Khan who are
    western rock musicians.

    While Bollywood is indianized version of western music intermixed with ragas and indian instruments.

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  4. Thanks PC. Been enjoying it the last couple of days. One of your best uploads.

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  5. Thanks for this special album of SJ. Expecting a RD number as the next upload.

    Regards
    Amit Kishore

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