Tenderlonious/Jaubi - Ragas from Lahore review | Ammar Kalia's global album of the month

The Guardian 80

(22a Records)
Ed Cawthorne and the Jaubi quartet blend improv with Indian classical music on this free-flowing collaboration

Ever since the likes of John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry came upon the tantric mantras of India and the harmonic and rhythmic forms of Indian classical music, the field of improvisatory music that became known as spiritual jazz has sought to merge a particularly African American expression with an ancient lineage to create its own musical philosophy – one resolutely apart from the white, Eurocentric tradition.