Interplay by Kavita Shah & François Moutin Duo

François Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo’s "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 jazz standards and original music adapted to the unique instrumentation of acoustic bass and voice. "Interplay" also includes the participation of two jazz legends: French pianist Martial Solal, 90, who has hired Moutin in his trio for the past three decades, and NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan, 89, a longtime mentor of Shah, whom she met, in serendipitous New York fashion, on the subway.

“This is one of the great underutilized instrumentations in jazz, and I’ve never heard it rendered quite like this.” - Giovanni Russonello, New York Times

"I started the concept of doing bass and voice in the early 1950s, so to be a guest on a wonderful singer and swinging bass player's recording some 60 years later is a fantastic feeling." - Sheila Jordan, Singer & NEA Jazz Master

Tracklist

1.	You Go to My Head	5:47

2.	La Vie en Rose	3:45

3.	Coming Yesterday (f. Martial Solal)	6:47

4.	Bliss	3:32

5.	Falling in Love With Love (f. Sheila Jordan)	6:24

6.	Aigue Marine (f. Martial Solal)	3:21

7.	Blah Blah	4:49

8.	Utopian Vision	3:37

9.	Interplay	6:05

10.	The Provider's Gone	3:05

11.	Peace (f. Sheila Jordan)	6:00

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Credits

released February 16, 2018

Kavita Shah - voice, ukulele (track 10)
François Moutin - upright bass
Sheila Jordan - voice (tracks 5, 11)
Martial Solal - piano (tracks 3, 6)

Recorded on February 22 & 23, April 6, September 26 & 27, 2016 and mixed and mastered by Jeremy Loucas at Sear Sound Studio in New York, NY. Additional recording on June 21, 2016 by Julien Bassères at Studio de Meudon in Meudon, France. (c) Kavita Shah & François Moutin 2016.

Cover photo by Jacob Blickenstaff. Cover design by Beatriz Salvatierra/BeStudio.

www.kavitashahmusic.com
www.moutin.com

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