Ceci n’est pas fusion
At the Kitab literary festival in Bombay last weekend, author Amit Chaudhuri (Real Time) injected classical ragas into the jazz standard ‘Summertime.’
The tabla player wiped his palm across the doogi, approximating the shimmery, slidey sound of a wire brush across a cymbal:
The band is called This Is Not Fusion. Naturally.
on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007, 11:11 am in Literature, Music, Video clips › 
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On the jazz/Asian tip, I met these musicians recently at a show in London who’d been thrown together to create a fusion concert in Afghanistan in 2005. Seeing a U.S. jazz singer belt out “Leili Leili Jaan” was definitely one to remember. :) But the story behind this clip is that when they first went there and the Afghanis played a traditional tune, the Americans were like, whoa, that’s just like an old jazz song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_eMVqJ9Dd8
Love the Magritte-inspired title to this post….and thanks Midwestern Eastender for the youtube link.
Non-snarky music posts are the pipe!
Darn. I missed Summertime. But after you left, they did On Broadway