Word: sitar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really very natural and a part of the folk culture of much of the world." It was while he was doing graduate work in ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A. in 1962 that Ellis grasped the jazz potential of the complex, repeated beat cycles underlying Asian and Middle Eastern music. With Indian Sitar Player Hari Har Rao, then a member of the U.C.L.A. music faculty, he formed the Hindustani Jazz Sextet to explore musical passages to India; two years ago, he launched his big band...
...YORK (World Pacific). The master sitarist's latest rendition of the sound that has infiltrated jazz and indeed reOriented all Western popular music. Ever since the Beatles endorsed Shankars traditional Indian music last year, his ragas have become all the rage. From the long-necked, gourd-bellied sitar, Shankar strokes a whining, hypnotizing stream of spontaneous melodies within the framework of a predetermined pattern of notes. The Eastern "scales" he uses are now definitely required running by jazz musicians, especially bassists, whose solos frequently echo his soulful, inscrutable improvisations...
...strategic paperback titled How to Get Ahead in the Army. For those who could not make the sun scene, there was a new crop of movies to catch, coffeehouses for conversation, or further out, a burgeoning of psychediscotheques tripping with lobster lights and the whining anti-melodies of Indian sitar music...
AFTERMATH (London). The Rolling Stones still choke on raw emotion (Paint It Black) and holler Beach-Boyish insults over a throbbing beat (Stupid Girl). But on occasion, now, the wild-eyed quintet become as refined-if not as inventive-as the Beatles, and back up their ballads with dulcimer, sitar or harpsichord...
...Time Around" sounds like the Beatles's "Norwegian Wood." Like its model, it pushes a sitar or something into prominence, then narrates a man's seduction by some sore of Lamia, from his passive and clouded viewpoint. Once again triple rimes breed doggeral--this time in short, 3-to-a-line phrases like...