Jazz Raga

by Gabor Szabo

Jazz Raga cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1967
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 34:35
  • Community rating: 3.47/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An ambitious early fusion project where the Hungarian guitarist pioneered the integration of the sitar within a jazz context, partly by dubbing his own guitar parts over exotic instrumentation. The hypnotic results capitalized on the era's burgeoning psychedelic fascination while pointing towards future world-jazz hybridities.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, desert, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Yesterday (2:31)
  2. The Last One To Be Loved (3:43)
  3. The Echo Of Love (4:18)
  4. Gypsy '66 (7:02)
  5. Flea Market (2:51)
  6. Walk On By (2:52)
  7. If I Fell (3:21)
  8. Gypsy Jam (5:01)
  9. I'm All Smiles (2:52)

Credits

  • Gabor Szabo - primary artist, guitar, sitar, painting [cover], written-by
  • Johnny Gregg - bass
  • Bernard Purdie - drums
  • Bob Bushnell - guitar [fender]
  • Alicia Szabo - written-by
  • Gary McFarland - written-by
  • Clyde Otis - written-by
  • Jagger-Richards - written-by

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