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With a title and front cover like this, one would expect 1968's Music for Yoga Meditation and Other Joys to have come out on an obscure San Francisco label run out of the back room of a natural foods store and feature amateurish players no one had ever heard of before or since. Yet, this duet album between clarinetist Tony Scott -- a former hard bop player in the '50s who had become drawn into world music and a style that can only be called proto-ambient -- and sitar player Collin Walcott is actually...

Iconic new age fusion artist Jai Uttal and drummer/songwriter/mixmaster Ben Leinbach pair up for what is Uttal's first album specifically dedicated towards the practice of yoga - Music for Yoga and Other Joys. Although Music for Yoga and Other Joys may have been conceived to enhance your asanas, this album really would work well with any sort of relaxing activity - be it meditation or simply reading a book. The sonic environment that Jai Uttal has created on this album is Asian-tinged featuring instruments...

Description Jai Uttal--premier world music composer and 2003 Grammy nominee--offers a moving mix of melody, rhythms, and chants with Music for Yoga and Other Joys. Known for his eclectic blend of East-meets-West sound, Jai offers listeners his first album created especially for yoga practice. More than 60 minutes of sensual music featuring dotar, electric guitar, and slide tamboura, all complemented by Jai's full, golden-toned voice. Produced in collaboration with Ben Leinbach. Also an excellent...

A few weeks after the reunification of Germany, Leonard Bernstein raised his baton above the ruins of the Berlin Wall and conducted a special arrangement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. The central statement of the work, that "all men will be brothers," captured the sentiment of those who saw a brighter future for the newly reunited nation. This now-iconic performance is a palpable example of "musical monumentality" - a significant concept which underlies our cultural and ideological understanding...

September 27, 2010: This cd is the best yoga cd I have listened to! It is so motivating and relaxing at the same time! I would recomend it to any yogi or yogini or anybody looking for some modivational and relaxing music!!!

Bhakti Bazaar: Music For Yoga and Other Joys, Vol. 2 (Lyrics included with album) product details page

After stints at Juilliard and in the Army during the '40s, clarinetist Tony Scott rose to prominence in the '50s as a respected jazz soloist. His resumé at the time included work with Sarah Vaughan, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, and Claude Thornhill, among many others. In addition to these sidemen dates, Scott also cut several solo albums. His subtle phrasing eventually found a perfect niche in the smattering of meditation and yoga dates he cut in the mid-'60s for Verve...

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Personnel: Jai Uttal (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, melodica, harmonium, keyboards, kalimba, percussion); Ben...

On this follow-up to their 2004 album Music for Yoga and Other Joys, West-meets-East musicians Jai Uttal and Ben Leinbach come up with four lengthy suites in which they mix Western pop elements with traditional Indian sounds for a world/new age hybrid. The beats are maintained for most of the 16- to 19-minute tracks, meant to accompany yoga exercises and undefined "other joys," but Uttal and Leinbach employ varying voices and instruments over the rhythms, sometimes melodically chanting variations...

Personnel: Tony Scott (clarinet); Shinichi Yuize (koto); Hozan Yamamoto (shakuhachi). Recorded in Japan in February 1964. All tracks...