Culture Theatre: Mayer's Music Is Still Remarkably Fresh After 40 Years ; Jazz Diary

Birmingham Post › February 25, 2008

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I'll be spending quite a bit of time this week listening to an excellent reissue of music by the late composer and violinist John Mayer and his band Indo-Jazz Fusions.

Etudes might have been recorded in 1969, 20 years before record shops had a world music section, but it sounds remarkably fresh.

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Culture Theatre: Mayer's Music Is Still Remarkably Fresh After 40 Years ; Jazz Diary

Its combination of Indian instruments and Western ones, its orchestrated parts and improvised sections, its mixing of all kinds of influences, not just jazz and Indian classical ...

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