Jazz
May round-up
he are also ways of adding to the scope of jazz without using large resources (see Jazz Choice), as demonstrated by and associates on , which sees this superb electric bassist drop down a few gears from his usual melodic groove-driven metafunk to explore his Punjabi roots alongside severalof Indo-jazz, perfectly contextualising his lively contributions to this set of compositions and improvisations that variously feature voice, tabla, sarangi (possibly the only bowed string instrument in the world that requires the strings to be stopped by the player’s cuticles), the bansuri flute and even the cajon, the box drum with roots in Africa and South America. Vivid and highly engaging. () ★★★★★
