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Live At The Glenn Gould Studio

Bruce Elder, reviewer
August 15, 2008

A truly remarkable synthesis of great blues-jazz playing and traditional Indian singing.

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2dayfm.com.au
Artist
Harry Manx and Friends
Genre
Jazz/Blues
Label
Dog My Cat Records/Shock

As an exercise in music eclecticism there can be few more diverse recordings than this remarkable collection of songs.

It starts with India meeting the West (courtesy of singer Samidha Joglekar and tabla player and scat singer Ravi Naimpally) on Manx's composition Point Of Purchase and moves into country-blues with Take This Hammer.

A remarkable nine-minute cool and jazzy version of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Chile, complete with a tabla interlude, slides into a soulful reading of Danny O'Keefe's Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues. A 10-minute version of Muddy Waters's Can't Be Satisfied follows, finishing with Manx on lap slide on J.J. Cale's Tijuana.

This is a truly remarkable synthesis of great blues-jazz playing and traditional Indian singing. The combination works.

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