West Meets East: Indian Music & Its Influence West Meets East: Indian Music & Its Influence CD

In the fifties, the influence of Indian music on the West manifested itself in the work of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman: pioneer jazz musicians of a golden generation who were fascinated by it's form and how it worked as a model of improvisation, the skill that lay at the heart of their own art. A decade later, It took the Beatles to catapult Indian music to the forefront of public awareness and make the sound of the sitar a common feature of popular culture in the West. Their engagement with the ancient classical music of the subcontinent started an avalanche of similar experiments in the rock and pop world, engendering what Ravi Shankar called 'the Sitar Explosion'. For a while, the sitar or some other element from Indian music was increasingly heard in the background of general texture of recordings by many famous British groups: the Rolling Stones, Traffic, Kinks, Yardbirds, to name but a few, while musicians working in the domestic folk-rock field such as Pentangle, the Incredible String Band, and the guitarist Davy Graham also picked up on it. In the United States, aspects of Indian music would be absorbed both by such psychedelic bands as The Byrds, The Doors, Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and by composers of new music, the minimalists: Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. But Western fascination with Orientalism was not entirely new; it's piquancy is evident in the works of such impressionists as Claude Debussy, Benjamin Britten and Maurice Ravel, a composer considered to be the father of Exotica, whose sound world is at the heart of the works of Exotica's most formidable icons, Les Baxter and Martin Denny. This presentation comprises key recordings by major Western jazz, exotica and classical artists under the spell of Indian music and culture, combined with the long, perfumed recordings by Ravi Shankar and his Indian contemporaries which most influenced them.

1. Sindhi Bhairavi (Morning Raga) - Ravi Shankar 2. Sextet India - John Coltrane 3. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane 4. Raag Yaman Kalyan: Teen Tala (Evening Raga) û Ali Akbar Khan 5. Calcutta Blues - Dave Brubeck Quartet 6. New Delhi - Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus 7. New Delhi - Victor Feldman Quartet 8. Left Alone - Eric Dolphy Quintet 9. Darbari Kanada (Alap ; Gat In Teentaal) (Deep Night Raga) - Sharan Rani 10. India - Sun Ra And His Arkestra 11. Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman Quartet 12. Mirage For Miles û Paul Horn Quintet Featuring Emil Richards 13. Milestones - Miles Davis 14. Modal - Joe Harriott Quintet 15. Miyan Ki Malhar (Rainy Season Raga) û Ustad Vilayat Khan ; Ustad Imrat Khan 16. El Toro û Chico Hamilton Quintet Featuring Gabor Szabo 17. Tabla Solo (Tritala Rhythm) - Chatur Lal 18. Ecos Jerezanos (Echoes From Jerez) - Sabicas 19. Love Dance û Yusef Lateef 20. Before Dawn û Yusef Lateef 21. Jalsaghar (The Music Room) - Title Music û Ustad Vilayat Khan 22. Teen Kanya (Three Girls) - Satyajit Ray 23. Teen Kanya - Title Music 24. The Fateful Night (Monihara) 25. Mrinmoyee Sad (Samapti) 26. Improvisation On The Theme Of Pather Panchali - Ravi Shankar ; Bud Shank 27. Black Narcissus - Title Music - Brian Easdale 28. Black Narcissus - Kanchi's Dance - Brian Easdale 29. Moonlight On The Ganges û Martin Denny 30. Harem Silks From Bombay û Les Baxter's Orchestra 31. The Left Arm Of Buddha - Les Baxter's Orchestra 32. The Prince Of The Pagodas: Water Dances (Excerpt) - Benjamin Britten 33. Little Ugly Girl, Empress Of The Pagodas From Ma Mere L'oye - Maurice Ravel 34. Ondine From Gaspard De La Nuit - Maurice Ravel 35. Quatre Po?mes Hindous - Maurice Delage 36. Madras 37. Lahore 38. Benar?s 39. Jaipur 40. Voiles From Pr?ludes For Piano - Book One - Claude Debussy 41. Pagodes From Estampes For Piano û Claude Debussy 42. Romanian Folk Dances For Piano - B?la Bart?k