Shakti with John McLaughlin

guitar, violin, tabla, ghatam

Group founded in 1973 by John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, which combines jazz with Carnatic and Hindustani traditions. It toured mainly from 1975 to 1977 and received a Grammy in 2024 for This Moment.

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Styles

• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk
• Indo-jazz

Landmark tracks

• Joy (Shakti) (1976)
• Mind Ecology (1977)
• The Daffodil and the Eagle (1977)
• Happiness Is Being Together (1977)

Sources

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