Naya Baaz
Charm
2023 - Whirlwind Recordings: WR4806
https://www.whirlwindrecordings.com/pre-order-charm/
https://www.whirlwindrecordings.com/rez-abbasi/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm_(Album)
https://www.earshot.org/project/naya-baaz-feat-rez-abbasi-josh-feinberg/
https://www.reztone.com/naya-baaz-charm/
https://rezabbasi-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/charm

* Rez Abbasi      : electric guitar, acoustic guitar
* Josh Feinberg   : sitar
* Jennifer Vincent: five-string cello
* Satoshi Takeishi: drums

https://www.reztone.com/
https://www.joshsitar.com/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jennifer-vincent-mn0000857750
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Takeishi

Recorded by David Stoller at the Samurai Hotel Recording Studio,
Astoria, New York City, New York, USA, on November 18th & 19th, 2021.

Reviews
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By Stephen Graham
https://www.marlbank.net/posts/naya-baaz-charm-whirlwind-1-2

The great thing about the use of a sitar in a jazz context - and it worked well
on Herbie Hancock track 'The Song Goes On' from The Imagine Project the best
most recent example to hand - when you get elasticity and non-western scales
mixing with western instruments and modalities from the Indian
sub-continent. There is a also a sense when guitar and sitar get really stuck
in of a very incisive sense of attack that can achieve a vital propulsion and
engagement with the sound as flow is generated and volume maxes up. But you
also get extended play and room for extemporisation shaped around core motifs
and of course the coming together of traditions that span many disciplines and
share much more in common than differentiates them. The driving jazz-rock side
of the album and churn of scalar cycles is a good factor on 'Emancipation'
where there is some of Abbasi's best soloing. If you are into the Indo side of
John McLaughlin or Joe Harriott's work with John Mayer Charm certainly chimes
well.

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By Matt Collar
https://www.allmusic.com/album/charm-mw0003951967

By S. Victor Aaron
https://somethingelsereviews.com/2023/08/19/rez-abbasi-naya-baaz-charm/

By Ferell Aubre
https://thejazzword.com/2023/05/naya-baaz-charm-review/

By Tzvi Gluckin
https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/rez-abbasi-street-smart-jazz

By Michael Toland
https://bigtakeover.com/recordings/naya-baaz-rez-abbasi-josh-feinberg-charm-whirlwind

By Bill Milkowski
https://downbeat.com/news/detail/presenting-the-worldly-jazz-beat-of-naya-baaz

Por «el intruso» (es)
https://elintruso.com/2023/03/05/charm-el-debut-discografico-de-naya-baaz/