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

Joe Harriott (1928-1973) was a Jamaican-British saxophonist. John Mayer (1930-2004) was an Anglo-Indian composer born in Kolkata. The double quintet featured jazz and Indian musicians.

Capitalizing on the new craze for Indian music in the late 1960s.

This LP featured the Irène Schweizer Trio & Dewan Motihar Trio. Dewan Motihar was part of the John Mayer Quintet, and played sitar and sang. Irène Schweizer is a Swiss free-jazz pianist. Originally issued in 1967.

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.

Amarendra Roy Chowdhury (1939-2022) was born in Bangladesh, and moved to the USA in 1968 to study statistics. When Roy moved to New York, he worked as a waiter in Indian restaurants in the region. In the weekends, he performed as a tabla artist accompanying a sitar player at A Taste of India, an Indian restaurant in Greenwich Village, where he was spotted by John McLaughlin, with who he recorded "My Goal's Beyond". Roy eventually got the attention of Miles Davis, with whom he recorded several records. He lived in East Brunswick NJ for several years.

Vasant Rai (1942-1985) was a sarod player from Unjha, Gujarat, India. He moved to New York in 1969. This is a jazz release, with 3/4 of the world music group Oregon.

Dr. L. Subramaniam (he actually did earn a medical degree) was born in 1947, and is the elder brother of L. Shankar. This is one of his many jazz efforts, here collaborating with Larry Coryell (guitar), Tony Williams (drums), Alex Acuna (percussion), Mark Massey (keyboards), and Subash Chandran (mridangam).

This was originally issued in 1986.

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. Besides his mother, he is supported by Don Cherry, L. Shankar and Jonas Hellborg.

Born in London UK in 1973, Susheela Raman's family is from Tamil Nadu, India. She grew up in Australia, where she had traditional training in Carnatic classical music of south India. With her partner, guitarist/producer Sam Mills, she reinterprets these 200 year old compositions and presents them in a modern style. "Dhamavati" was taken from "Parandhamavati Jayati" composed by Muthuswami Dikshitar (1776-1835).

Jatayu is a quartet from Chennai. They weave together traditional Carnatic music with jazz, funk, rock, and other styles and influences to push the boundaries of ‘fusion’.

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.

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.

Josh Feinberg started studying classical music and jazz on piano in New York City, but in his teens he fell in love with Indian Classical music. Focusing on sitar, he learnt for years under Ali Akbar Khan and listened intensely to recordings of Nikhil Banerjee.

Together, they epitomize the new generation of musicians, conversant in both jazz and Indian music, and able to blend styles together.

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.

Jatayu is a Jazz Rock quartet from the port city of Chennai, India. https://jatayumusic.bandcamp.com/track/restless-feat-harini-iyer-praveen-sparsh

Raghavendran Rajasekaran is from Singapore. He began playing the bamboo flute (bansuri) at the age of eleven and also earned a Diploma in Music (Jazz) from Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore. He furthered his bansuri skills under Ronu Majumdar.

Purbayan Chatterjee was born in Kolkata in 1976. While trained as a classical sitarist, on this release he incorporates various world music genres.

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.

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. This ensemble demonstrates the fluidity of jazz and Indian music that only recently became possible, after several decades of South Asian global mobility.

Ganavya Doraiswamy is a vocalist, multi instrumentalist and composer, born in New York but raised in Tamil Nadu, India. She has degrees in theater, psychology, and ethnomusicology. https://www.ganavya.com/home

"Ganavya creates a lush twine out of American and South Asian traditions" - New York Times. This track is a cover of the Mongo Santamaria composition "Afro Blue", with Tamil poetry.

Blossom is an early jazz release from Dr. L. Subramaniam. On this one, he collaborated with Herbie Hancock (keyboards).