Jazz Meets India

Original pressing, later reissued on MPS.
Released in Saba's Jazz Meets The World -series.
Recorded October 23rd, 1967 in Saba Tonstudio, Villingen, Schwarzwald in Germany
This concert was part of a series of shows recorded by Germany's SWF (Südwestfunk Baden-Baden) station. The tour was in support of artists from around the world and had the name Jazz Meets The World and included Americans like The Archie Shepp Quartet, Germany's Globe Unity big band, France's Barney Wilen, from India the Dewan Motihar Trio, flamenco jazz with the Pedro Itturalde Sextet with Paco de Lucia and the Indonesian All-stars led by Tony Scott. There was also a segment called Jazz meets Africa with Olatunji and American Philly Joe Jones.
This show offered covers only the Irene Schweizer Trio (Irene Schweizer p; Uli Trepte b; Mani Neumeier d) and is a merge of two excerpts recorded from German radio that contains two versions of the long Manfred Schoof composition, Brigach And Ganges, which features Indian classical music. In turns, the jazz trio weighs in with the melody led by Schweizer's piano then gives way to the sitar and tabla of the Dewan Motihar Trio. (Diwan Motihar on sitar, Keshav Sathe on tabla, Kasan Thakur on tamboura). It is a duel between free jazz and Indian raga. Neumeier's drumming thunders while the Dewan Motihar Trio offer an intriguing Asian variant to heavy drumming