Manjit Singh-Tabla drums
Daljeet Kaur-vocalist
Alan Brown-piano
Nigel Gavin-guitar
Mostyn Cole-bass
guest drummer
This concert opened with free jazz and fusion meeting the rhythms of the sub continent…Manjit showed his mastery…a call and response with the guest drummer(electronic drums and cymbals.)…. guitar ,piano and bass came in full force…in which was to be a high energy concert…Manjit also showed his mastery of scatting Indian rhythms.
The next number(an arrangement of classical Indian music)…featured bass and rhythm on tablas at the same time….scatting a complicated rhythm with ease…Alan Brown came in…like a powerful river in flood…like the Estonian Rein Rannap…..drawing something out of eastern lands.
A Sufi composition…Nigel plays with a singing quality…over intense tabla rhythms…funky America meeting India…Daljeet is a perfect jazz singer finding all the spaces….but more percussive.
The Composition “Banks of the Gunga”….bowed bass introducing the mood….Daljeet communicates the heat and spirit of India…piano solo a thing of beauty.
“Winter rain”(an original composition).Alan Brown…Broadbent like…Daljeet tunes into a great celestial chord…the monsoon rains soaking into Indian earth…the countryside made soft.
Nigel Gavin opens the second set with an Al di Meola influenced fluid solo. Then a piano improvisation over tabla’s …Herbie Hancock’s “Maiden Voyage” taken to India.
The band then improvises off an Alan Brown composition…showing East European influences…percussive flowing with multiple rhythms…Nigel showing a Gabor Szabo influence.
“Golden Brown” a take five rhythm back blended to Indian roots. Nigel’s solo is like a tiger ready to strike…while Brown Rannap’s it up.
On the last number Daljeet’s singing is like a walk through a brand new country.
GT
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