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Kavita Shah - VISIONS (EPK)
OJU OBA - Kavita Shah & Lionel Loueke
Kavita Shah, Live in The Greene Space
Reportagem da Televisio de Cabo Verde

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Interview with WRTI's J. Michael Harrison
Interview with KPFK's Betto Arcos
Interview with WNTI's Cabelman Dan

Tour Dates

12/05/2019 - Bowdoin College / Bowdoin, ME
12/06/2019 - Bowdoin College / Bowdoin, ME
01/17/2020 - University of Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh, PA
05/28/2020 - BuckingJam Palace / Calgary, Canada
05/29/2020 - Yardbird Suite / Edmonton, Canada
05/30/2020 - Bassment / Saskatoon, Canada
05/30/2020 - Bassment / Saskatoon, Canada
1 Sodade
2 Visions
3 Little Green
4 Tabla Interlude
5 Paper Planes
6 Triste
7 Moray
8 Deluge
9 Oju Oba
10 My Time Is When
11 Rag Desh: Alaap
12 Rag Desh: Teentaal Gat
13 Rag Desh: Meltdown
14 Sodade Postlude
15 When
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A vivid self-portrait in mosaic form, Kavita Shah's Visions'on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music heralds the arrival of a strikingly original, globally minded new voice. The gifted vocalist/composer brings together a rich variety of musical, cultural, and personal influences into a formidable debut album that combines a jazz quintet with Indian tablas and the West African kora.

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SYND: NPR, Jazz with Bob Parlocha, VOA, UnderCurrents, CBC
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Wash DC, Atlanta, Seattle, Cleveland, Houston, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Portland, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, San Antonio, Honolulu, Montreal
Inter: Canada, India
Online: Jazz From Gallery 41, M3, MOJA, Taintradio, Blogcritics, examiner.com, About.com, Metro, Explosive Fashion, AXS, StepTempest, Worldnews

  • Kavita Shah brings her 'Night of Jazz Reverie' to Club B-10 at MASS MoCA / Northeast Public Radio
    Posted At: February 8, 2019 12:00 AM

    This week's cultural highlights in our region include several jazz events, modern dance, orchestral music, an all-star comedy double-bill; and a whole lot more. Take one-part compositional jazz virtuoso, add voice with astounding range, fold in the staggering knowledge of a highly accomplished ethnomusicologist, and you arrive at the supremely talented vocalist, Kavita Shah, who brings her "Night of Jazz...
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  • Kavita Shah presents 'Folk Songs of Naborea' at NYC's Rubin Museum
    Posted At: October 25, 2018 12:00 AM

    Tomorrow evening - October 26th at NYC's Rubin Museum in New York, Kavita Shah presents a special performance of "Folk Songs of Naboréa" This represents Sha's most ambitious work to date, and was named by NPR as one of the Top 10 Jazz Performances of 2017. First premiered in November 2017 at NYC's Park Avenue Armory, "Folk Songs of Naboréa, is an interdi...
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  • Watch Francois Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo - INTERPLAY
    Posted At: January 6, 2018 12:00 AM

    Vocalist and composer Kavita Shah follows up her Inner Circle Music debut recording - Visions, collaborating with Bassist François Moutin in an intimate yet extraordinary new project titled: Interplay. The album features special guests and NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan, Shah's mentor, along with Martial Solal. The disc will release on February 16 via Dot Time Records.  p.p1 {margin...
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  • Kavita Shah set for the BOP STOP / Cool Cleveland
    Posted At: October 31, 2016 12:00 AM

    Vocalist/composer/pianist Kavita Shah is a native New Yorker with an MFA in jazz voice from the Manhattan School of music. But her horizons are much broader than that implies. She draws on the cultural traditions of her Indian heritage, her fluency in Spanish, French and Portuguese, her research in Afro-Brazilian music, and her background listening to and playing everything from opera to folk to hip hop ...
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  • Kavita Shah brings potent mix of cultures and styles / The Boston Globe interview
    Posted At: November 18, 2014 12:00 AM

    You might hear the arrangement of an Indian raga on singer Kavita Shah's sparkling debut, Visions, or the prominent tabla on her version of the Stevie Wonder title track, and jump to conclusions about an immigrants' daughter on a roots trip. That wouldn't be quite right. Shah's Indian parents had little music at home save for a few LPs; her first instrument was the classical piano, and she only dabbl...
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  • Kavita Shah plays Boston's Regattabar / WICN Interview
    Posted At: November 15, 2014 12:00 AM

    On this edition of WICN: Worcester - Jazz Matinee Host Chet Williamson will be joined by singer Kavita Shah. Kavita Shah who is playing Boston's Regattabar this Tuesday November 18 is gaining a reputation as a visionary young singer, composer, and arranger. Hailed by Downbeat Magazine as the "Best Graduate Jazz Vocalist" (2012) and winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers A...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Santa Fe New Mexican: Pasatiempo review
    Posted At: October 24, 2014 12:00 AM

    Visions is the debut album by singer Kavita Shah, a native New Yorker of Indian origin who is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English. Musically, she's just as multidimensional, and for Visions she has collected the musicians to embody that character. Among them are Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke, her co-producer; African kora player Yacouba Sissoko; pianist Steve Newcomb and bassist Linda...
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  • Kavita Shah on KCSM / In The Moment
    Posted At: September 18, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah's performance at the California Jazz Conservatory (formerly the Jazzschool Institute) in Berkeley aired September 18, 2014 on San Mateo, CA's KCSM: In the Moment, a Jazz performance series hosted by Jim Bennett. Shah's concert was part of a west coast tour supporting her debut album Visions, and featured Pat Carroll, Steve Newcomb, Noah Garabedian, Guilhem Flouzat, and s...
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  • Kavita Shah@Jazz Standard / WNYC - Soundcheck: Gig Alert
    Posted At: September 2, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah is at Jazz Standard tonight.    WNYC - New York / Soundcheck: Gig Alert A first generation Indian-American singer, Ms. Shah reaches back into her cultural heritage to add ornament to her striking jazz interpretations. Listen to Kavita's version of Stevie Wonder's "Visions."    ...
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  • Kavita Shah plays Old Lyme CT / Hartford Courant profile
    Posted At: August 20, 2014 12:00 AM

    Singer Kavita Shah's journey to the recording of her debut album, "Visions," was a long one, involving hours spent honing her skills - on stages and in classrooms - punctuated by bursts of inspiration and self-discovery. If you want to talk degrees and accolades, Shah's pedigree is impressive: the undergraduate diploma from Harvard (she majored in Latin American Studies). The master's deg...
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  • Kavita Shah plays Old Lyme CT / WNPR feature
    Posted At: August 20, 2014 12:00 AM

    Shah's music reflects the insatiably curious mind of an ethnographer, the soul of a poet, and the eye of a painter. An artist of many parts, Kavita Shah, an ascending, young singer/songwriter of Indian descent, applies her keen, empathetic intelligence, ethereally beautiful voice and adventurous spirit by using global music and multi-cultural influences as sources of inspiration for expressing her pe...
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  • Kavita Shah plays Old Lyme CT / WWUH Interview
    Posted At: August 19, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah creates music without boundaries. A native New Yorker of Indian heritage, Shah developed broad musical tastes as a child, studying classical piano, listening to her parents' pop albums, singing in multiple languages with the acclaimed Young Peoples Chorus and soaking up hip hop on the radio. Eventually, jazz became Kavita's focus, but her music continues to incorporate influences and ...
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  • Kavita Shah's Visions makes KMUW: Global Village's Top 40 Albums of July 2014
    Posted At: August 4, 2014 12:00 AM

    A vivid self-portrait in mosaic form, Kavita Shah's Visions heralds the arrival of a strikingly original, globally minded new voice. The gifted vocalist/composer brings together a rich variety of musical, cultural, and personal influences into a formidable debut album that combines a jazz quintet with Indian tablas and the West African kora. Ms. Shah's new album, Visions, is included on Wichita&#...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Downbeat Magazine review
    Posted At: July 29, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kindred spirits and fellow sonic globetrotters-singer Kavita Shah, the native New Yorker of Indian descent, and Benin-born guitarist and co-producer Lionel Loueke-join forces in this breathtakingly beautiful collaboration that brings a wealth of musical influences to bear. With Loueke's distinctive percussive guitar work weaving in and out of the mix, Shah soars with understated majesty while alternately...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions is 'Jazz Weekly' - Ringer Of the Week
    Posted At: July 24, 2014 12:00 AM

    Looking for some inspiring and creative jazz vocals? Here's the disc you've been dreaming of! A native of New York, of Indian descent and fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French (don't you want to meet her parents?!?), Kavita Shah uses her earthy yet kaleidoscopically crystalline voice to mix with American, European , African and Indian instruments to create a rich curry of sounds that is spicy, attract...
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  • Kavita Shah performs at Seattle's Royal Room / AXS review
    Posted At: July 15, 2014 12:00 AM

    It was hotter than hell, but inside Seattle's Royal Room last Tuesday night, New York vocalist Kavita Shah brought her own special kind of shade. Brilliant with evocative, dream-drenched vision, bursting with vibrancy, Shah and her young, traveling band - Brisbane, Australian pianist Steve Newcomb, Perth bassist Des White, Parisian drummer Guilhem Flouzat - painted the small nightclub/bar with beauti...
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  • Kavita Shah interview on KPFK - Los Angeles / Global Village Tuesdays with Betto Arcos
    Posted At: July 1, 2014 12:00 AM

    Hailed by Downbeat Magazine as the "Best Graduate Jazz Vocalist" (2012) and winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award (2013), composer/arranger/vocalist Kavita Shah showcases her debut CD "Visions" (Inner Circle Music) TODAY!!@Noon PT .Tuesday July 1 on KPFK - Los Angeles / Global Village Tuesdays with Betto Arcos. The show features Music from around the world and around the block. ...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / WDCB: Chicago 'New Releases Spotlight'
    Posted At: June 17, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah - Visions: Released by Greg Osby's label (Inner Circle) and featuring a few of the same NYC based musicians that Gretchen Parlato utilizes on her albums, this is a modern jazz record in every sense of the word.  From the Stevie Wonder penned title track to the handful of originals that Shah wrote for the disc, this is without a doubt one of the most intriguing CD's I've liste...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Indian Express review
    Posted At: June 16, 2014 12:00 AM

    On Visions, New York-based jazz singer/composer Kavita Shah gives classics a refreshing twist creating original scores with multiple layers. The jazzy interludes were always kept to a bare minimum, as Ms. Shah never liked the idea of the whimsy of jazz lurching around the lyrics. READ THE FULL Indian Express ARTICLE...
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  • Kavita Shah interviews on new 'Visions' release with WRTI - Philadelphia
    Posted At: June 12, 2014 12:00 AM

    On WRTI - Philadelphia 'The Bridge' J. Michael Harrison presents his award-winning blend of jazz that takes you from the mainstream to the edge of the art. Rarely heard artists are played with regularity, as is a dash of jazz poetry. Mr. Harrison recently sat down with singer/composer Kavita Shah around her latest CD release - Visions. Released on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music, Vis...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / AXS review
    Posted At: June 10, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah's new album, Visions, is exactly as she intended: jazz as viewed through an enchanted prism. All 15 compositions, including a bonus track, force the listener to open up another channel of perception. It's all jazz, but played with global enlightenment, transforming jazz into a revelatory, blossoming dream just on the other side of the world. Released on Inner Circle Music May 27, 2014, Sh...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Buffalo News review
    Posted At: June 10, 2014 12:00 AM

    Indian singer Kavita Shah, whose new disc "Visions" was produced by Lionel Loueke and includes Steve Wilson, bassist Linda Oh and a whole bunch of compositions from Indian tradition and Brazil along with Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter and Joni Mitchell. What it means is that we are now accustomed to hearing singers in foreign tongues with "native" instruments making music that marries beautifully, indeed h...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Le Devoir review
    Posted At: May 30, 2014 12:00 AM

    New York singer of Indian descent, Kavita Shah launches here first disc - Visions. His experience of diaspora is not linear, but kaleidoscopic, rightly explains the statement. Accompanied by a jazz quintet, she adds kora and tabla to broaden the spectrum of his musical heart beating. She sings gently and delicately navigates between world and jazz at all, Indian classical music, Brazilian ...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / About.com review
    Posted At: May 27, 2014 12:00 AM

    Diversity is the watchword of today's young artists, whether they're piano players from Cuba or singers from New York City. Kavita Shah is the latter, a third generation New Yorker of Indian descent who speaks four languages, has sung in many more, has studied ethnomusicology at Harvard and who considers NYC hip hop radio station HOT97 among her many influences. All those many elements of her...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Step Tempest review
    Posted At: May 25, 2014 12:00 AM

    If you enjoy the stew that can be created when jazz comes in contact with music from diverse cultures, place Visions in the player. Vocalist Kavita Shah, a native of Manhattan, approaches her debut recording as a leader with no trepidation. Opening with Cape Verdean composer/performer Amandio Cabral's "Sodade", one must be prepared to be surprised. The blend of co-producer Lionel Loueke's acousti...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / WTJU jazz blog
    Posted At: May 20, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah: Visions, Inner Circle Music. Harvard/Manhattan Music educated, Downbeat award-winning vocalist 2012, Kavita Shah makes a grand debut with a set of Indian tabla vocals, Brazilian + Malian influences.  Produced by & co-starring  guitarist Lionel Loueke;  with Linda Oh on bass, Steve Wilson on reeds, and Rogerio Boccato on percussion. Inventive arrangements make it work. List...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / Blogcritics.org review
    Posted At: May 20, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah's liner note describes her ambitious intention in Visions, her album due for a May 27 release, as an attempt "to see what happens when seemingly disparate elements come together, on their own terms, in dialogue." She goes on in a rather mystical vein, "A dialogue outside the restraints of our mortal perceptions of time and space. A dialogue in which those parts of us that are not physically p...
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  • Kavita Shah set to release 'VISIONS' celebrates at Joe's Pub on May 27th
    Posted At: May 14, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah is set to release her debut recording - Visions and will celebrate with a performance at NYC's Joe's Pub on Tuesday, May 27th. A vivid self-portrait in mosaic form, Kavita Shah's Visions (available May 27th on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music) heralds the arrival of a strikingly original, globally minded new voice. The gifted vocalist/composer brings together a rich variety ...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / IndiaWest feature
    Posted At: May 11, 2014 12:00 AM

    Indian American vocalist-composer Kavita Shah has collaborated with guitarist Lionel Loueke on her debut album - Visions, a reflection of her multicultural background and diverse musical tastes that range from Afro-Cuban music to classical piano. Co-produced by Loueke, the album combines a jazz quintet with Indian tabla and West African kora. It is set to release May 27 via Inner Circle Music. ...
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  • Kavita Shah - Visions / LAJazz.com review
    Posted At: May 2, 2014 12:00 AM

    Kavita Shah brings a fresh, cultural perspective to jazz, not only singing and composing, but arranging her music as well. Here is an artist steeped in ethnomusicology. With East Indian roots, she was born and raised in New York City and speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese and French. Her musical tastes reveal influences of Hip-Hop, Afro-Cuban and Latin music with a love of jazz and composition, intertwine...
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  • Behind the scenes of Kavita Shah - Visions
    Posted At: May 1, 2014 12:00 AM

    A vivid self-portrait in mosaic form, Kavita Shah's Visions (available May 27 on Greg Osby's Inner Circle Music) heralds the arrival of a strikingly original, globally minded new voice. The gifted vocalist/composer brings together a rich variety of musical, cultural, and personal influences into a formidable debut album that combines a jazz quintet with Indian tablas and the West African kora. ...
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  • Kavita Shah - 'Paper Planes' included on NPR's international jazz heat seekers list celebrating 'International Jazz Day'
    Posted At: April 30, 2014 12:00 AM

    For International Jazz Day, NPR - Alt Latino's Felix Contreras talks about musicians abroad who are heating up the U.S. jazz scene. Included on the list is Kavita Shah's - Paper Planes from her debut release - Visions. LISTEN TO THE PIECE...
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  • Kavita Shah featured on 'Jazz For Curious Listeners'@ National Jazz Museum in Harlem
    Posted At: April 8, 2014 12:00 AM

    Hailed by Downbeat Magazine as the "Best Graduate Jazz Vocalist" (2012) and winner of the ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award (2013), Kavita Shah is gaining a reputation as a visionary young singer, composer, and arranger. A native New Yorker of Indian origin fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French, Ms. Shah incorporates elements of Indian, Brazilian, and Malian music into her jazz-based reper...
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