San Jose Mercury News · Jul 03 2010
East Meets West Music ★ Album Review
Ravi Shankar. "Nine Decades: Vol. 1, 1967-68" (East Meets West). The legend has gone into his private archives, and the first disc in a projected series is mostly given over to a 48-minute raga. Recorded live on the banks of the Ganges River in 1968 - with Alla Rakha on tablas and Kamala Chakravarty on tamboura - the improvisations rise to a boil with their ancient newness. You can hear why Coltrane got hooked.