Joy (Shakti)

Shakti with John McLaughlin · 1976 · rec. live on July 5, 1975

Context

Recorded live on July 5, 1975 at Southampton College (Long Island), "Joy" opens the first album by Shakti, a group founded in 1974 by John McLaughlin with violinist L. Shankar, Zakir Hussain, and Vikku Vinayakram. Co-written by McLaughlin and Shankar, the track runs over eighteen minutes and sets McLaughlin's guitar against the percussion of Carnatic music (mridangam, ghatam) and the tabla.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Indo-jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Indo-jazz: British jazz, Modal.

By the same artist

• Mediterranean Sundance / Río Ancho (1981)

Sources

• EN: Shakti (Shakti album)
• EN: John McLaughlin (musician)

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