Dave Brubeck RIP...

[Quarky]

I'd never heard it before but it was presented to me as something truly wonderful, especially the tabla playing.

I wasn't too sure, which is why I posted it here.

Would it be better without the massed violins?

It was played a lot on the popular music channels a year or two back. I enjoyed it, for what it was. The violins seem an integral part of the piece. I'm not sure how this would be classified - not jazz as such- more pop-world music based on a jazz standard.
But it seems to be a one off, and has not started a bandwagon.

Did Ravi Shankar ever mix it with Jazz groups? Obviously Yehudi Menuhin well known. But Nigel Kennedy perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitar_in_jazz

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well i am unhappy to let you continue with the banter on this thread which was intended by most posters as a tribute to the late Dave Brubeck and therefore not a location for the usual fun and games

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