A lifelong New Yorker of Indian origin hailed for possessing an “amazing dexterity for musical languages” (NPR), Shah incorporates her ethnographic research on Brazilian, West African, and Indian traditions into her original music, and she regularly tours her music on six continents. Her projects include Visions (2014), co-produced by Lionel Loueke, Folk Songs of Naboréa (2017), named a Top 10 Jazz Concert of the Year by Nate Chinen), Interplay (2018), a duo album with François Moutin nominated for France’s Victoires de la Musique for Jazz Album of the Year, and Cape Verdean Blues (2023), a “quietly riveting” (New York Times) and “gorgeous” (The Guardian) tribute to the legendary singer Cesária Évora.
All Roads Lead to Home is the much anticipated sequel to Shah’s debut, Visions, featuring a global cast of established New York musicians: pianist/keyboardist Leo Genovese (Argentina), guitarist Juancho Herrera (Venezuela/Colombia), bassist François Moutin (France), and drummer/percussionist Varun Das (India/USA). The band’s performance credits collectively include the biggest names in jazz and world music, including Esperanza Spalding, Wayne Shorter, Lila Downs, Milton Nascimento, Miguel Zenon, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Jack Dejohnette, Claudia Acuña, and Lionel Loueke. The Quintet has performed at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Central Park SummerStage, MASS MoCA, Rubin Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Winter Jazz Fest, San José Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, Melbourne Jazz Festival, Brisbane Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Jazz Standard, and Joe's Pub.
