Improvisations
by Ravi Shankar
- Type: Album
- Released: 1962
- Label: World Pacific
- Country: India
- Length: 39:43
- Community rating: 3.92/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Released on World Pacific, this album represents a massive step in the cross-pollination of Indian classical music and Western jazz. Ravi Shankar's hypnotic sitar ragas are juxtaposed alongside collaborations with jazz musicians Bud Shank and Paul Horn, planting the seeds for the impending psychedelic raga-rock explosion.
Genres
Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, acoustic, improvisational, droning, virtuosic, traditional
Tracklist
- Improvisations On The Theme Music From Pather Panchali (7:07)
- Fire Night (4:37)
- Karnataki (6:43)
- Raga Rageshri - Part 1 (Alap) (6:50)
- Raga Rageshri - Part 2 (Jor) (11:01)
- Raga Rageshri - Part 3 (Gat) (3:24)
Credits
- Ravi Shankar - primary artist, sitar, composed by
- Gary Peacock - bass
- Woody Woodward - design [cover], photography by
- Harihar Rao - dholak, tambura [second]
- Louis Hayes - drums
- Bud Shank - flute
- Dennis Budimir - guitar
- Robert E. Brown - liner notes
- Richard Bock - producer, recorded by [audio by]
- Kanai Dutta - tabla
- N.C. Mullick - tambura