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| Artist______________ Gabor Szabo |
| Title_______________ Jazz Raga |
| Label_______________ Verve Reissues |
| Genre_______________ Jazz |
| Year________________ 2010 |
| Release Date________ 2021-05-20 |
| Street Date_________ 2010-12-07 |
| Source______________ WEB |
| Encoder_____________ MP3 / LAME |
| Quality_____________ CBR 320kbps 44.1kHz |
| Size________________ 79.2MiB |
| Playtime____________ 0:34:15 |
| URL_________________ https://amazon.com/dp/B004EEYF8G/ |
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| 01. Walking On Nails 02:46 |
| 02. Mizrab 03:30 |
| 03. Search For Nirvana 02:07 |
| 04. Krishna 03:11 |
| 05. Raga Doll 03:43 |
| 06. Comin' Back 01:55 |
| 07. Paint It Black 04:40 |
| 08. Sophisticated Wheels 03:53 |
| 09. Ravi 02:58 |
| 10. Caravan 02:59 |
| 11. Summertime 02:31 |
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| Jazz Raga, recorded in August of 1966, and released in early 1967, is |
| Hungarian jazz guitarist Gabor Szabo's third album for Impulse!, and |
| his most exotic and mysterious. Szabo not only played guitar on the |
| live-to-two-track sessions, he also overdubbed sitar on nine of the |
| album's eleven cuts. |
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| Produced by Bob Thiele and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, it combines |
| Szabo's singular guitar sound (equally influenced by West Coast jazz, |
| Hungarian gypsy folk songs, and Indian music - which he began |
| studying as early as 1961), as he fronts a rhythm section of drummer |
| Bernard Purdie and upright bassist Jack Gregg on nearly half of the |
| album with an expanded lineup that also included electric bassist Bob |
| Bushnell on the rest. On what has now become Szabo's signature tune, |
| "Mizrab" (perhaps the first truly psychedelic jazz composition) Ed |
| Shaugnessy was added on tablas. |
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| Musically, Jazz Raga dwells in the no man's lands between jazz, psych |
| rock, Indian, and Eastern European music. Its track selection |
| includes two standards - "Caravan" and "Summertime" - a smoking cover |
| of the Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black," and eight Szabo originals. |
| While some of the titles, like "Search for Nirvana," "Raga Doll," and |
| "Krishna" seem dated, they don't taint the power of the music. |
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| "Mizrab," with its driving tablas, mantra-like bassline, open-tuned, |
| droning guitar and a call-and- response sitar, creates a melody that |
| is at once haunting, inviting, and affecting. The groove is |
| monstrous, infectious, and dizzying. Szabo's glorious staccato |
| playing on "Raga Doll" complements the hypnotic but gentle Latin |
| groove laid down by Purdie. Gregg's descending five-note bass pattern |
| that breaks in the middle, creates a halting, anticipatory breath in |
| the listener. "Sophisticated Wheels" adds a tough samba rhythm and a |
| taut engagement between Purdie and Gregg. The sitar and guitar create |
| a contrapuntal feel, adding to the dimension of the tune. "Paint It |
| Black" one ups the Stones' version; it employs the sitar right up |
| front, not for coloring the melody, but as a foundational element. |
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| "Ravi" is actually funky thanks to Purdie's drumming, while Szabo's |
| instruments play alternately at one another, communicating intensely. |
| "Caravan" comes off as something completely otherworldly, while |
| "Summertime" is one of the most original versions ever recorded. |
| "Comin' Back" combines a 12-bar blues with a surf riff and R&B drums, |
| with a killer tone by Szabo. |
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| The album received mixed reviews at the time but developed a lasting |
| cult following. Jazz Raga is a classic for its barrier-breaking |
| invention and startling creativity. |
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| YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! |
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