Style recipe for Suno v5

Indo-Jazz

Indo jazz from the 1960s: sitar, tabla, raga saxophone, hypnotic and spacious in feel. A name-free Suno recipe that reproduces the signature sound without tripping the artist-name filter.

History

Indo jazz lays jazz improvisation over structures and patterns taken from Indian music, with classical influences mixed in. The name is recent, but the idea goes back at least to the mid-1950s, and Indian influence runs through the work of John Coltrane and Yusef Lateef. Perhaps its most important influences are Joe Harriott and John Mayer of Indo-Jazz Fusions, who grew up in Calcutta studying Indian music. Mayer was precise about the difference between the traditions: Indian music runs on one long melodic line over a drone, with complex rhythms instead of Western harmony, and his own pieces were mostly scored, with little free improvisation. In the early 1970s L. Subramaniam launched what he called neo-fusion, and his albums of 1979-1986 brought in Stephane Grappelli, Stanley Clarke and Herbie Hancock. In the late 1970s John McLaughlin formed Shakti to join jazz improvisation with Indian classical music. The oddest chapter belongs to tabla player Broto Roy: his 1998 debut American Raga went aboard the International Space Station when space tourist Dennis Tito flew there. Sitarist Ashwin Batish, whose father worked with George Harrison on the Beatles film Help!, has spent 35 years joining sitar with jazz, rock and pop.

The recipe

Indo jazz, 1960s, hypnotic, spacious, dr…

33 tags, 527 characters, 90–140 BPM — that's the full anatomy of this recipe, born out of the 1960s.

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