Shez Raja Collective at PizzaExpress Jazz Club Soho

The Shez Raja Collective are celebrating the release of their fifth album, the star-studded 'Gurutopia' featuring the cream of the British jazz scene as well as global jazz legends, Mike Stern and Randy Brecker. The recording, released on US label Dot Time Records, captures the raw energy of the band’s spectacular live show – a sonic kaleidoscope of Indo-jazz, thundering funk, tuneful ragas and euphoric grooves. For this special night at Dean Street, Raja is joined by guitarist John Etheridge and saxophonist Soweto Kinch.

“The hip-shaking mix of Eastern song lines and funky Western dance-beats never wavers”...

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The Shez Raja Collective are celebrating the release of their fifth album, the star-studded 'Gurutopia' featuring the cream of the British jazz scene as well as global jazz legends, Mike Stern and Randy Brecker. The recording, released on US label Dot Time Records, captures the raw energy of the band’s spectacular live show – a sonic kaleidoscope of Indo-jazz, thundering funk, tuneful ragas and euphoric grooves. For this special night at Dean Street, Raja is joined by guitarist John Etheridge and saxophonist Soweto Kinch.

“The hip-shaking mix of Eastern song lines and funky Western dance-beats never wavers”

Evening Standard

"There's a Headhunters-like bravura to some of bass-guitar virtuoso Raja's dynamically funky music. If the Mahavishnu Orchestra were reformed with a reincarnated Jaco Pastorius in charge it would sound pretty similar"

The Guardian

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