The creation of Indo-jazz fusion

1967: Number 35 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicIt could only have happened in London: a Jamaican saxophonist (Joe Harriott), an Indian violin player (John Mayer), and a double quartet uniting jazz (trumpet, piano, bass, drums) and Hindustani classical instruments (sitar, tambura, tabla). The result is an awkward, fascinating and often beautiful conversation between cool-school jazz and Indian music, one that would lay the foundations for hundreds of similar exper...

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