'Summertime'. Popular jazz song played on sitar/piano in Indo-Jazz Fusion Style with improvisations.
'Summertime'. Popular jazz song played possibly the first time ever 'live' this way on sitar and piano in an Indo-Jazz Fusion Style with extensive improvisations. Sanjeeb Sircar - Sitar, Arunava Chatterjee - Piano. Recorded using two cameras. http://www.sanjeebsircar.com About the song... Originally ''Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP. The song soon became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". Source: Wikipedia.
About Sitar in jazz
The history of the sitar in jazz, that is the fusion of the sounds of Indian classical music with Western jazz, dates back from the late-1950s or early-1960s when musicians trained in Indian classical music such as Ravi Shankar started collaborating with jazz musicians such as Tony Scott and Bud Shank. Later jazz recordings containing sitar music include albums by Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, Joe Harriott, and Ornette Coleman.
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