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COMING YESTERDAY - Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo f. Martial Solal
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Tour Dates

05/28/2020 - BuckingJam Palace / Calgary, Canada
05/29/2020 - Yardbird Suite / Edmonton, Canada
05/30/2020 - Bassment / Saskatoon, Canada
1 You Go to My Head  
2 La Vie En Rose  
3 Coming Yesterday (feat. Martial Solal)  
4 Bliss  
5 Falling in Love (feat. Sheila Jordan)  
6 Aigue Marine (feat. Martial Solal)  
7 Blah Blah  
8 Utopian Vision  
9 Interplay  
10 The Provider's Gone  
11 Peace (feat. Sheila Jordan)  
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Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah - Interplay is an improvisational journey across lyric-driven and wordless pieces alike. Together, Moutin and Shah embrace virtuosity, spontaneity, and lyricism through a repertoire of standards and original music adapted to the unique instrumentation of acoustic bass and voice. The album, recorded at Sear Sound Studios in New York and Le Studio de Meudon in Paris, features 11 tracks ranging from classics like ?dith Piaf's "La Vie en Rose" to instrumental songs like Dafnis Prieto's "Blah Blah" to original compositions by Shah and Moutin.

  • Moutin Factory Quintet with Kavita Shah set for Williams Center concert / lehighvalleylive
    Posted At: April 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    If you're in the mood for something you wouldn't hear on a jukebox at any given bar, this will do the trick. The jazz quintet provides "a dynamic post-bop atmosphere." Vocalist Shah joins the group in a concert that will "demonstrate the unique and beautiful union of voice and bass." Last year, Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah released; 'Interplay,' an improvisational journey across lyric-dr...
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  • Moutin-Shah, Frisell, Scofield, Elling make Paste '10 best jazz albums of 2018'
    Posted At: December 5, 2018 12:00 AM

    In 2018, the jazz world saw important releases. Here are the Paste 10 best jazz albums of the year    Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah: Interplay - French bass virtuoso joins free-spirited improvising singer on a series of highly conversational duets ranging from the jazz standard "You Go To My Head" to the Edith Piaf anthem "La Vie En Rose" to a scat-fueled take on Bill Evans' "I...
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  • Francois Moutin, Kavita Shah - Interplay. A gracious, informed nod to Sheila Jordan's legacy / The New York City Jazz Record
    Posted At: May 30, 2018 12:00 AM

    Sheila Jordan, musical descendent of icon Charlie Parker and ever-burning flame among jazz singers, pioneered the bass-voice duo in 1977 with the SteepleChase album Sheila in collaboration with Arild Andersen. She went on to solidify the exchange as her signature sound, most notably with Harvie S and Cameron Brown, producing multiple recordings and scores of performances throughout the ensuing decades. T...
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  • Kavita Shah chats with AM1080: KSCO, Santa Cruz
    Posted At: May 21, 2018 12:00 AM

    Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah - Interplay is an improvisational journey across lyric-driven and wordless pieces alike. Together, Moutin and Shah embrace virtuosity, spontaneity, and lyricism through a repertoire of standards and original music adapted to the unique instrumentation of acoustic bass and voice. The album, recorded at Sear Sound Studios in New York and Le Studio de Meudon in Paris, ...
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  • Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah - Interplay / HOT HOUSE: Artist Talks Inspirations
    Posted At: May 1, 2018 12:00 AM

    When vocalist and composer Kavita Shah's debut Visions came out in 2014, the world heard not simply an astonishing vocal talent, but also a marvelously deep thinker whose musical chops could slice across genres and remold them into remarkable fusions of sound-in Kavita's hands, Brazilian-infused song fare paired with kora traditions can give way into funkier R&B-inspired music mixed with tabla playin...
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  • Set for Vieux Carre in Minneapolis, Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah stop by Jazz88KBEM
    Posted At: April 10, 2018 12:00 AM

    Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah - Interplay is an improvisational journey across lyric-driven and wordless pieces alike. Together, Moutin and Shah embrace virtuosity, spontaneity, and lyricism through a repertoire of standards and original music adapted to the unique instrumentation of acoustic bass and voice. The album, recorded at Sear Sound Studios in New York and Le Studio de Meudon in Paris, featu...
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  • Francois Moutin chats with KAOS in advance of Royal Room date with Kavita Shah
    Posted At: April 5, 2018 12:00 AM

    The François Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo project 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. At Hungry Brain, François and Kavita will present their first record "Interplay," released in February 2018 on Dot Time Records. "Int...
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  • Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah set for Bay Area dates / The Mercury News
    Posted At: April 3, 2018 12:00 AM

    French-born bass master François Moutin and intrepid Indian-American vocalist Kavita Shah titled their new album "Interplay" (Dot Time Records), which aptly sums up their prime directive as a duo. Whether stretching out on a standard, freely improvising, or investigating a jazz tune by the likes of Horace Silver, they are in constant musical contact, a sinuous high-wire dance that defies gravity. ...
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  • Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah w/Martial Solal - Coming Yesterday / popmatters video premiere
    Posted At: March 23, 2018 12:00 AM

    Francois Moutin, born in Paris, became one of the leading jazz bass players in France before moving to New York in 1997. Kavita Shah was born in New York and started playing classical piano and singing seriously with the Young People's Chorus of NYC, which took her around the world. At Harvard, Shah studied Latin America and ethnomusicology, but singing - and singing jazz - brought her back to perfor...
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  • Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah - Interplay is a match made in jazz heaven / Festival Peak
    Posted At: February 25, 2018 12:00 AM

    French virtuoso bassist François Moutin and New York City starling Kavita Shah are a match made in jazz heaven. They discovered their kindred, musical spirits when she sat in on a 2014 gig of his playing with trumpeter Amir ElSaffar. Moutin was so taken by Shah's vocals that he invited her to continue on in a duet for the record books. Moutin and Shah make quite a pair on Interplay (Dot Ti...
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  • Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah create a stir at Winter Jazzfest / DOWNBEAT
    Posted At: January 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    Just as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, widely acknowledged as one of the biggest and most comprehensive festivals in the world, grew from its initial incarnation as a couple of venues on a strip of Rue St. Denis to a sprawling campus around the city's Place des Artes complex, so has New York's Winter Jazzfest expanded from its initial base of a few clubs on Bleecker Street to an expansive ente...
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