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Remember Shakti: Remember Shakti
by Walter Kolosky
In the mid-1970's many believed John McLaughlin had committed commercial suicide by abandoning electric instruments and Western sensibilities in favor of an all-acoustic group with Indian musicians. In fact, record sales for this group, Shakti, were quite disappointing. Sometimes though, a musician has to follow his muse. In this case, McLaughlin was led to create a very fertile groundbreaking group in the form of Shakti. With all due respect to the very fine group Oregon, Shakti was really the first ...
read moreRemember Shakti: Saturday Night in Bombay
by Walter Kolosky
Last year's Saturday Night in Bombay suffers from a bit of confusion in the liner notes. They refer to a certain Friday Night in San Francisco in 1978." That certain Friday night Jacques Denis was talking about, The Guitar Trio's Friday Night in San Francisco , actually took place in 1980. Liner note mistakes like that are bothersome, since there's no reason not to get things right on the record. Of course, Denis was attempting to link the earlier album's ...
read moreDarryl Jones of the Rolling Stones and Selvaganesh of Remember Shakti add their talents to Miles From India
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Michael Ricci
Montreal -- For its 30th edition and as part of the Miles From India concert, the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is pleased to welcome famed Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones and illustrious Indian percussionist Selvaganesh, member of the group Remember Shakti. The Miles From India concert, a nod to jazz legend Miles Davis uniting renowned Indian musicians with established American jazzmen, will be held Saturday, July 4, 2009, at 9:30 p.m., in Theatre Maisonneuve, Place des Arts, as ...
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John McLaughlin/Remember Shakti "The Way of Beauty" New DVD Release
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All About Jazz
2006 DVD Release called The Way of Beauty from seminal jazz/world music unit Remember Shakti featuring John McLaughlin on guitar, Zakir Hussain on tablas, U.Shrinivas on mandolin, V.Selvaganesh on kanjeera and Shankar Mahadevan on vocals. This is a All Region NTSC DVD playable on all DVD players. This dvd features a 60 minute documentary (Shakti Timeless) on the band starting from the early seventies. 45 minutes of sound check footage with Remember Shakti from Paris 2004 as well as 55 ...
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