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The Indo-British Ensemble

The Indo-British Ensemble

The Indo-British Ensemble has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 23 March 2019. Songs played include Lalit (Meeting Of The Twain), Yaman (The Colonel's Lady) and Pahari (University Raga).

Dev Kumar (sitar), Chris Karan (tabla), Sitara (tamboura), Ray Swinfield (fl), Kenny Wheeler (flh), Jeff Clyne (b), Bill Eyden (dr) - on tracks 3 & 4 Leon Calvert replaces Kenny Wheeler and Art Morgan replaces Bill Eyden

In 1969, the imaginative indie record producer, and jazz-lover, Mark Sutton, who owned his own recording studio in Soho, gathered together some of the finest session jazz musicians working in London together with husband and wife, Dev and Sitara Kumar to record a series of what we might today call "fusion". The result was "Curried Jazz". The producers for the sessions were the great Ken Barnes and Michael Hall .Victor Graham composed,arranged and conducted the pieces.

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The Indo-British Ensemble

The Indo-British Ensemble has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 23 March 2019. Songs played include Lalit (Meeting Of The Twain), Yaman (The Colonel's Lady) and Pahari (University Raga).

Dev Kumar (sitar), Chris Karan (tabla), Sitara (tamboura), Ray Swinfield (fl), Kenny Wheeler (flh), Jeff Clyne (b), Bill Eyden (dr) - on tracks 3 & 4 Leon Calvert replaces Kenny Wheeler and Art Morgan replaces Bill Eyden

In 1969, the imaginative indie record producer, and jazz-lover, Mark Sutton, who owned his own recording studio in Soho, gathered together some of the finest session jazz musicians working in London together with husband and wife, Dev and Sitara Kumar to record a series of what we might today call "fusion". The result was "Curried Jazz". The producers for the sessions were the great Ken Barnes and Michael Hall .Victor Graham composed,arranged and conducted the pieces.

Original source: Last.fm

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Lalit (Meeting Of The Twain)
The Indo-British Ensemble
Music For Pleasure1969
Yaman (The Colonel's Lady)
The Indo-British Ensemble
Music For Pleasure1969
Pahari (University Raga)
The Indo-British Ensemble
Music For Pleasure1969