The halfway point of the year’s Jazz on Jay series saw bassist Tarik Shah and his trio play inside at Robb Alley, due to poor weather.

Review by Michael Hochanadel / Photos by Rudy Lu for Nippertown

Explaining this novel approach to familiar tunes, Shah said that while playing with Betty Carter as a 21-year-old, the great singer encouraged him to “do something different with it,” not to follow conventional pathways through songs. This keeps the music growing, he said, and he continues learning from this.

– Michael Hochanadel for Nippertown