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)
