S/D: 'Eastern' Tinged Jazz

scratch that org and make it a com.

What does everyone make of this stuff?

i love pat martino. get yourself some gabor szabo while yer at it. i'm a sucker for any and all 60's jazz/rock/folk ragas and/or mysticism though. even when it's badly done. which was often.

That Martino record is pretty fucking great. Other than that, the first thing that comes to mind is the recent fusion project Kif, which I still believe is totally underrated. Cellist & guitarist team up for bombastic but occassionally sublime eastern-influenced fusion.

definitely check out that Don Cherry "Brown Rice" a few posts down on that soundsational page. wonderful album. make sure to check out his other albums (especially with CoDoNa). here's my take on a buncha his albums Don Cherry - s/d

if you consider Klezmer eastern enough, check out the john zorn led Masada albums

both Ornette Coleman and Archie Shepp have tracks where they played along w/north african/middle eastern groups.

shepp's on Live At the Pan-African Festival (second cd of Blase reissue)

coleman's is called "Midnight Sunrise" from Dancing In Your Head

miles has tabla and sitar on a bunch of his electric albums. off the top of my head they're on Live/Evil and On the Corner.

Coltrane has this awesome tune called 'India,' and if you want to go eastern europe, has has this other awesome one called 'ole.'

the first side of Mahavishnu John McClaughlin's "My Goals Beyond" has a few really nice droney, modal eastern tracks

i can't totally remember what this sounds like but Don Ellis Orchestra's "Electric Bath" has a song called "Turkish Bath" that has sitar and is said to have "a far, far-out East theme" and uses quarter tones

Dave Brubeck Jazz Impressions of Eurasia

a far cry from Brown Rice or On The Corner, though

Duke Ellington The Far East Suite

John McLaughlin's "Shakti" albums are pretty ecstatic and charged up - or at least the first one is. Recorded live, it matches Mahavishnu Orchestra in energy if not volume.

all of this looks good! i have some don cherry stuff but not the stuff mentioned.

(masada is not my cup of team, unfortunately.. but yeah! this is great))

"cup of team"

Pretty much all good stuff here so far.
The Don Ellis album is one of the most ludicrous things I won. There's a woodwind section in "Turkish Bath" that makes me laugh out loud every time. This is a good thing.

Yusef Lateef's "Eastern Sounds" is a good, fairly laid back record, not as in your face as everything else in this thread.

On the fusion side, some of the stuff Hellborg/Lane/Selvaganesh did together is pretty nifty. Not sure what's best though, as I only own "Good people in times of evil". I kinda hate fusion in general, but this is good. I could see this hitting many people's "destroy" lists though, as it's very shreddy.

Anyhoo, my favorite out of everything mentioned so far is Ellington's Far East Suite.

For something from a rock background, you might want to give Embryo's "Steig Aus" a shot.

Most people who like Alice Coltrane are also very fond of the classic Pharoah Sanders stuff like Summun Umyun Bukmun, Black Unity, Karma etc, but I guess this is more African than Eastern?

I can't think of anything to destroy. Harrumph. Well, I really like the acoustic Shakti stuff, but I can't get into the electric "Remember Shakti" stuff at all. A friend of mine blames McLaughlin's electric guitar tone... he may be on to something.