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Dot Time Records Announce "Interplay," An Exciting New Album From The François Moutin/Kavita Shah Duo
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All About Jazz
Interplay is a meeting of minds and spirits, one that embraces virtuosity, spontaneity, and lyricism through a repertoire of standards and original music adapted to the unique instrumentation of acoustic bass and voice. It features 11 tracks recorded at Sear Sound Studios in New York and Studio le Meudon in Paris. Kavita Shah and François Moutin are also joined by their octogenarian mentors–NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan on vocals, considered by many as the pioneer of bass-and-voice duets, and legendary ...
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Charles Evans and Neil Shah - Live at Saint Stephens (Hot Cup)
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Master of a Small House
Friends for over fifteen years, Charles Evans and Neil Shah have a shared history that extends well beyond the musical. Their rich rapport rests at the core of this sublime duo concert recorded within the capacious confines of a church in western Pennsylvania in January of last year. Evans supplied the open-ended compositions, the first two broken into parts, but Shah's role isn't simply supportive. The two musicians work in keenly close collusion, leading and receding as both the music ...
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Letters of Support for Bassist Tarik Shah
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All About Jazz
Dear friends-- If you are a friend of Tarik Shah he needs help now in the form of letters. Please address to the following and include information as suggested.For background information on his situation, check the website below.
The Honorable Loretta A.Preska United States District Judge Southern District of New York 500 Pearl Street New York, New York 10007
Address the letter to her, but mail it to ...
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Tarik Shah Update, 3/27/O7
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Margaret Davis Grimes
I hope all are well and that everyone has seen the New York Times article about bassist Tarik Shah and his brother, written by Corey Kilgannon. I
f you need to refresh your memory about Tarik Shah's case, please visit the website beelow. Very briefly, he is accused by the government of “terrorist" conversations, associations, and intentions, though he has never harmed anyone, participated in any violence, or indeed been arrested for anything before in his whole life.
In new ...
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Tarik Shah Update (Corey Kilgannon Article, NY Times, 3/6/07)
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All About Jazz
Jazz Pianist's Muse: His Jailed Brother By Corey Kilgannon Published: March 6, 2007 Growing up in the Bronx, Antoine Dowdell and his younger brother, Tarik, were jazz lovers who spent their allowance on Dinah Washington and Cannonball Adderley records, to the approval of their jazz-buff parents. Tarik took up the upright bass at 12 and by adulthood was playing with the likes of Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, Abbey Lincoln and Art Taylor. He also became a Muslim, changing ...
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Tarik Shah Update, October, 2006
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All About Jazz
It's been a long and beautiful summer and lovely autumn for most of us, but after 16 straight months, Harlem bassist Tarik Shah remains in solitary confinement in a small cage with the lights on 24 hours a day, still without trial, still without conviction, still without ever having harmed anyone, and without any previous prison record or criminal history in his whole life. (If you're not up on his case, please review the information at http://tariksfriends.faithweb.com.) However, his new ...
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Tarik Shah Update: July 2006
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All About Jazz
As a brief reminder, American-born Harlem bassist Tarik Shah, an African-American jazz musician of Muslim faith who has played and recorded with Abbey Lincoln, Betty Carter, Ahmad Jamal, and countless others, has been accused of “conspiracy" to abet terrorism and has been held in solitary confinement for more than 14 months as of now -- without trial, without having been convicted of anything, without any criminal record. For a full background on this tragic case, please see http://tariksfriends.faithweb.com.
Yesterday I ...
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Tarik Shah update (March 18, 2006)
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All About Jazz
Dear all,
I'm really too upset to write coherently about yesterday in court, compounded by the fact that I'd only had two hours of sleep the night before, so please forgive me if this is not the most reliable of reports. But as I notified you all before, Tarik Shah had decided a change of attorney was essential to his defense, and he and the family had obtained the services of Joshua Dratel, a powerful and highly reputed defense attorney, ...
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Tarik Shah update (March, 'O6)
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All About Jazz
This is an update on the case of Harlem bassist Tarik Shah, accused of “conspiracy" and “terrorism" by the government, and held in the Tombs for eight months in solitary confinement without trial and without actually being accused of committing any violent crime. (Please see tariksfriends.faithweb.com for more information on the case before now.)
On Saturday, March 11, 2006 at 10:50 AM, Erika McDaniel Edwards [co-counsel of attorney Anthony Ricco] wrote to Margaret Davis:
Mr. Shah has a new attorney ...
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Trial of Bassist Tarik Shah Set for March 17
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All About Jazz
February 18, 2006 Defendants in Terror Case Seek Removal From Solitary By Julia Preston Three Muslim men accused in an elaborate federal sting operation of plotting to provide training and money to terrorists have been held for months in solitary confinement, locked in cells at least 23 hours a day with the lights always on, their lawyers said yesterday. At a hearing in New York federal court, the lawyers said the harsh conditions have left the men disoriented ...
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