Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans storms western charts

[malaise]

I posted the video with Take Five last week
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/05/pakistan-musicians-top-western-charts-jazz
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The rich strains of eastern music have for centuries wafted across the rooftops of old Lahore. Now you might hear something new: jazzy riffs and a bossa nova beat.

An ensemble of veteran Pakistani musicians has pulled off an unlikely coup – storming western charts with an innovative jazz album and prompting comparisons with Buena Vista Social Club's rediscovery of a lost generation of Cuban musicians.

The Sachal Studios Orchestra has captured imaginations with a cover of Dave Brubeck's Take Five blending sweeping classical violins with sitars, tablas and other eastern instruments.

The piece has brought praise from jazz greats – Brubeck, 90, says it is "the most interesting" version of Take Five he's ever heard – and propelled the orchestra's album towards the top of the iTunes jazz charts in the US and UK. The album, which includes versions of The Girl from Ipanema, Misty and Desafinado, reached the top 10 in both countries.

[malaise]

1. Play the video - interesting interview

I'm lovin' it.

[valerief]

2. Very cool. Of course, I love Take Five anyway, but they've got a neat sound. nt

[malaise]

4. No one on this planet loves Take FIve like

hubby - it's one of his obsessions. :D

[dipsydoodle]

10. Then maybe he'd like this too

King Tubby - Take Five 5 Dub (Declaration of Dub) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYsVC4IzqYs&feature=related

[malaise]

11. He has all of them

I love this one :hi:

Take Five is a genuine classic

[snagglepuss]

3. What a great story. What really tees me off monumentally is the ban on music

by relgious fundamentalists who know damn well that music can connect people the way nothing else can and it does so without anyone prattling on about their own particular creeds. IMO all religions are simply attempts to reproduce what can be achieved by by music.

[malaise]

5. They are morons - they hate the arts, sport, music, literature, poety and

everything associated with the freedom of culture.
It is through culture that we communicate best with one another and I have long maintained that in the sphere of culture, there is way less prejudice than in spheres controlled by the establishment.

[Poll_Blind]

6. Awesome interpretation. Fans of Take Five should also listen to this reggae version by...

...Val Bennett called The Russians Are Coming. Those super-geeks among you will also know this as the memorable theme song from BBC's "The Secret Life of Machines" with Rex Hunkin. You won't regret it.

PB

[malaise]

7. Yep that's another great version

very old as well.

[dipsydoodle]

9. That's really cool

:thumbsup:

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[malaise]

12. Content not available now

Those Andrews sisters ripped off lots of Caribbean music

[dipsydoodle]

15. I'm an idiot - I sent the wrong link

Should've been this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFnWKef1r4Y&feature=related

[malaise]

16. LOL

Caribbean people hated them :D

[dipsydoodle]

18. I'm not surprised

It was only after I found that electro remix recently that I came across the story of the court case and an original calypso version by Lord Invader : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMWUF3LYd88

btw I asked the mods to delete the other post with the wrong link for me which they did and for which I'm grateful.

I take Emily has missed you ? Hope so anyway.

[RadiationTherapy]

13. Marked for later.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Thanks for the link.

I just ordered the album.

[malaise]

17. You're welcome

Hope they get visas for their performances in the West (which must come now) :D