Re: Microtones through pitch inflexions vs ornamentations. Jazz & Indian Music

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>> ps: I am a graduate student at CCRMA, Stanford, investigating
>> current-day  South Indian Classical Music using digital signal processing
>> techniques.  I am also a violin player, South Indian style, for the last 20 years.
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> I'm delighted to hear more exploration of the common ground between
> jazz and Indian music. I'm sure you're aware that this started with
> John Coltrane and his friendship with Ravi Shankar. Other exponents of
> this kind of fusion include:
>    Charles Lloyd
>    Jan Garbarek
>    John McClaughlin
>    Michael Wolf
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> ...and I'd love to hear more.

You should check out Joe Harriott and the work he did with John Mayer 
in the 60's - Indo-jazz fussions and Indo-Jazz suite.