Baiyina (The Clear Evidence)

by Pat Martino

Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1968
  • Label: Prestige
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:53
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Dramatically expanding his stylistic repertoire, the jazz guitar virtuoso heavily incorporated Indian ragas, complex Middle Eastern time signatures, and tabla percussion into this visionary release. Prefiguring the massive wave of world-fusion jazz in the 1970s, the deeply spiritual session utilizes these global elements to craft a profoundly hypnotic, meditative atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, islamic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Baiyina - Instrumental (11:54)
  2. Where Love's A Grown-Up God - Instrumental (6:33)
  3. Israfel - Instrumental (6:18)
  4. Distant Land - Instrumental (13:07)

Credits

  • Pat Martino - primary artist, guitar, written-by
  • Gregory Herbert - alto saxophone, flute
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums
  • Bobby Rose - guitar [second]
  • Reggie Ferguson - tabla
  • Khalil Balakrishna - tambura

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