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Kavita Shah

Kavita Shah is an award-winning vocalist, composer, researcher, and educator who makes work in deep engagement with the jazz tradition, while also addressing and advancing its global sensibilities. A lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR), Shah incorporates her ethnographic research on Brazilian, West African, and Indian musical traditions into her original repertoire. Her highly-acclaimed 2014 debut album—the internationally-minded project "VISIONS" (Inner Circle Music/Naïve Records)—was co-produced by guitarist Lionel Loueke. Her 2017 Park Avenue Armory premiere "Folk Songs of Naboréa," an interdisciplinary song-cycle for seven voices, was named by Nate Chinen (WBGO/NPR) as one of the Top 10 Jazz Performances of the year. In 2018, she released "Interplay" (Dot Time Records) in duo with bassist François Moutin, with legendary guests Martial Solal on piano and Sheila Jordan on vocals; it was nominated for France's Victoires de la Musique for "Album jazz sensation de l'année" (Jazz Album of the Year). Shah is currently working simultaneously on an album of traditional Cape Verdean music based on her ongoing fieldwork on the Atlantic island of São Vicente and a record of original music for her jazz quintet chronicling the journey to her ancestral villages in rural Gujarat.

Cape Verdean Blues

By Kavita Shah

Label: Folkalist Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Angola (ft. Bau); Flor di nha esperança (ft. Bau); Joia (ft. Bau); Um abraço di morabeza (ft. Fantcha, Bau); Amor di mundo (ft. Bau); Situações Triangulares (ft. Bau); Flor de lis (ft. Bau); Cize (ft. Bau); Chaki Ben (ft. Maalam Hassan Benjaafar, Bau); Um porta aberte (ft. Bau); Sodade (ft. Bau); Cape Verdean Blues (ft. Miroca Paris).

New Music From Jocelyn Gould, Angelica Sanchez, Nicole Rampersaud And More

by Bob Osborne
October 26, 2023

On this show we feature all new releases from Jocelyn Gould, Undisclosed Sims, Nicole Rampersaud, Nudo, John Taylor & Stan Sulzmann, Kevin Sun, Eddie Prévost with N.O. Moore plus Henry Kaiser & Binker Golding, Alessandro Sgobbio, Kuba Cichocki, Kavita Shah, Angelica Sanchez, David Lopato & Global Coolant, Maciej Obara, and Peripheral Vision. Playlist Show ...

Kavita Shah, Alabaster Deplume, Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid, Savannah Harris & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
October 24, 2023

A cosmopolitan edition of Mondo Jazz, which brings India, Cape Verde, Canada, Haiti, England, Sicily, Sardinia, the Great American Rivers, California and Germany to your headphones, wherever you might be, through Radio Free Brooklyn's digital transmitter in Bushwick, NY! Let's call it “jazz without borders!" Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison Mondo Jazz ...

Celebrating Koko Taylor Plus New Releases By Count Basie Orchestra, Darcy James Argue, Lenora Zenzali Helm, Kavita Shah, Lezlie Harrison & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 9, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from The Count Basie Orchestra, Sharon Minemoto, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, Kavita Shah, Lezlie Harrison and Eunmi Lee, with birthday shoutouts to Koko Taylor, Ann Richards, George Garzone, Melissa Stylianou, Basia, Nadia Washington and Carolina Calvache, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you ...

New Music From Alan Ferber And More Plus A Look Back At Carter And Ughi

by Bob Osborne
August 24, 2023

On this show we feature an eclectic mix of forthcoming and recent releases including Alan Ferber, Bellbird, Kavita Shah, Marcos Fernandez & Arturo O'Farrill, Eduardo Elia, Naya Baaz, Asher Gamedze, Matt Ulery, Liv Andrea Hauge, Knut Kvitfe Nesheim, and Manuel Gamez. There is also a look back at two great albums from Daniel Carter and Federico ...

2019: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2020

The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...

The Empress of the Blues

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 26, 2019

This broadcast opens with a celebration of the music of Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues, in honor of her birthday, with new releases from saxophonist Melissa Aldana, vocalists Emma Larsson, Marc Jordan, Joanna Wallfisch and Claire Martin, plus more birthday shout outs to Dusty Springfield and Carline Ray (member of the International Sweethearts of ...

Juno Nominations and Remembering Debra Mann

by Mary Foster Conklin
March 2, 2019

The first Week of the annual WFDU.FM February Fund Drive included new releases from pianists Lisa Hilton, Kait Dunton, Ellen Rowe and saxophonist Jordan Pettay with birthday shout outs to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jeanne Lee, Jutta Hipp, and Melody Gardot, among others. In the second hour, Debra Mann is remembered after news of her passing and ...

Interplay

By Kavita Shah

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: You Go To My Head; La Vie En Rose; Coming Yesterday; Bliss; Falling In Love With Love; Aigue Marine; Blah Blah; Utopian Vision; Interplay; The Provider’s Gone; Peace.