Icon: A Transcontinental Gathering is an album by bassist Jonas Hellborg, released on 25 January 2003 through Bardo Records. The album merges contemporary jazz-fusion and traditional Indian improvised music[2][3][4] and features guitarist Shawn Lane in his last officially released studio recording before his death in September of that year,[5] as well as the sons of ghatam player Vikku Vinayakram: Selvaganesh (kanjeera), Umashankar (ghatam) and Umamamesh (vocals), who also perform passages of konnakol, the vocal "scatting" often used as a memory device by Indian percussionists.[6]
The album's name stands for a common cross-cultural ideal image, beyond vanity and self-identity, also present in this kind of musical communication.[7]
^Prosser, Lee (12 Jan 2004). "ICON BY JONAS HELLBORG". Jazz Review. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 2012-10-27. Highly eclectic and imaginative, composer Jonas Hellborg paves the way for new jazz coming out of India.
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