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One of the earlier jazz efforts by Indian violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam (born 23 July 1947), here collaborating with Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen (28 February 1916 – 7 February 2017).

L. Shankar (born 26 April 1950) is L. Subramaniam's younger brother. Shankar came to the USA in 1969 and studied ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University, where he met John McLaughlin. They founded the world fusion group "Shakti" in 1985. Shankar has collaborated with just about everybody, lending an "exotic" sound from his custom double neck electric violin. L. Shankar discography Like his brother Subramaniam, he has a well established Indian Classical career, and several solo jazz projects.

Vijay Iyer (born in Albany on 26 October 1971) was trained on violin and is mostly self-taught on piano.

R. Prasanna (born in India on 2 October 1970) pioneered Indian Classical Music on electric guitar. He also plays jazz, rock and world fusion.

Nitin Mitta is an Indian tabla player.

L-R: Nitin Mitta, Vijay Iyer, Prasanna.

Fusion bassist Jonas Hellborg (born in Sweden on 7 June 1958) collaborated here with Niladri Kumar (on electric zitar), and Selvaganesh (percussion).

The electric "zitar".

Shakti was one of the earliest world fusion bands, founded by John McLaughlin (guitar), L. Shankar (violin), Zakir Hussain (tabla), and T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram (ghatam) in 1974. Some twenty years later McLaughlin and Hussain put together another band with the same concept, called "Remember Shakti", including V. Selvaganesh (son of Vikku Vinayakram), U. Srinivas (mandolin), and Shankar Mahadevan (vocals).

Prasanna (born 1970) grew up In Chennai India. He pioneered electric guitar in Carnatic (South Indian) music, but also has a love of jazz, progressive rock, and world fusion. Prasanna received a Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1992. He also graduated magna cum laude from the Berklee College of Music, Boston.

Jatayu is a Jazz Rock quartet from the port city of Chennai, India. Bandcamp

Chango Tales is their debut EP from 2019.

Fareed Haque was born in Chicago in 1963 to a Pakistani father and Chilean mother. When he was a child, Haque traveled with his parents all over the world, spending time in Spain, France, and Iran. In this one-off release, he collaborates with several western jazz and Indian classical musicians.

Ranjit Barot (born in 1959) is an Indian film score composer, music director, arranger, drummer and singer. He was born into a family steeped in Indian classical music and dance (his mother was the famous Kathak dancer Sitara Devi). Besides his Bollywood career (involved since at least 1989), he collaborates with many jazz musicians. "Bada Boom" is his debut jazz fusion record.

Rez Abbasi was born 27 August 1965 in Karachi Pakistan. When he was 4, his family moved to Los Angeles. Abbasi studied guitar at the University of Southern California and at the Manhattan School of Music. After graduating in 1989, he spent a couple months in India studying tabla with Alla Rakha, which kindled an interest in the music of India and Pakistan.

Trilok Gurtu was born in Mumbai on 30 October 1951. His mother is famous Hindustani (North Indian ) classical singer Shobha Gurtu. "Usfret" is his first release as a leader.

Mahanthappa is the son of Indian emigrants to the U.S. He was born on 4 May 1971 in Trieste, Italy as a result of his father's job in academia, but spent most of his life in Boulder, Colorado. But it wasn't until his time at Berklee in the early 90's, when he was introduced to the music of Indian saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath, whose use of a Western instrument in Carnatic music surprised and inspired Mahanthappa. Manthappa is currently the Anthony P. Lee'79 Director of Jazz at Princeton University.

Autorickshaw is led by vocalist and pianist Suba Sankaran (daughter of famed Carnatic percussionist Tricky Sankaran). She is based in Toronto.

Praveen Sparsh is a classically trained mridangam (barrell drum) player. He is also a member of the fusion group Jatayu. On this EP, he collects ambient sounds from various locations, and finds their rhythms around which he improvises on mridangam.