Shez Raja review – inventive bassist gives jazz fusion a good name

Pizza Express Jazz Club, LondonRaja turned Indo-jazz on its head with everything from funky bass to freestyle rapWhen the term Indo-jazz fusions first turned up in the 1960s, it often represented cool-bop saxes picking their way through intricate mazes of western melody and Indian ragas. Shez Raja takes a more robust approach, with his fat Fender-bass sound guitar-hero strutting, and an Indian melodies chattering against pounding funk, synths, electric violins and freestyle rap. Raja’s th...

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