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The SBL Podcast

057 - In Conversation with Shez Raja - Turning Indo-Jazz on its Head

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Bass, Electric Bass, Sbl, Education, Music Interviews, Online Bass Lessons, Music, Bass Guitar, Scott's Bass Lessons

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In today’s podcast we're catching up with a star of the 2017 London Bass Guitar Show, Shez Raja. With two solo albums already to his name, and another due for release next year, Shez Raja is without doubt a unique creative talent. Having earned a loyal live following in the UK, his bass-led collective draws on a hybrid approach that blends the fusion sounds of Return to Forever with a bass style that draws on both Marcus Miller and Stanley Clarke. With his latest release, Gurutopia, gaining r...

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Scott here from Scott's Bassessons.com and I'm back here with you with another awesome

0:05.5

interview and this week we've got the killing Shez Rajah who's a great bass player from over here in

0:11.7

the UK. He's played with just a ton of killer guys and he's also even had Mike Stern and

0:18.1

Randy Brecker on his last album. Now that is very cool. Before we get

0:22.6

into the interview, I also want to tell you about this cool thing we've got going on at the minute.

0:27.8

And it kind of ties into Shez, actually. We got to hang out at the London bass guitar show,

0:33.4

which was a month or so ago. It was a very cool, very cool weekend. And Scott's bass lessons,

0:39.7

actually we hosted eight. Yes, eight. That's quite a lot, isn't it? Eight workshops over the

0:46.7

entire weekend. We had guys like Zoltan Decone, who's one of the best bass players here in the

0:52.4

UK. We had Cody Wright.

0:54.4

We had Chris May from Overwater Bases talking about how to set up your base.

0:59.7

I did a workshop.

1:01.6

Jeff Chalmers did a workshop.

1:03.4

So we hosted all these workshops.

1:05.6

And obviously, most of our audience is not from the UK.

1:10.5

So what we thought would be a cool idea is to film

1:14.6

the entire two days for you guys and package it up for a download and offer it to anybody

1:20.7

that becomes an academy member. So all current academy members are going to get an email

1:26.7

and by academy members, I mean,

1:29.0

like guys that are in the membership over at scotspacecessons.com, right? So all of those guys

1:34.5

are going to get an email with a download link for the entire eight workshops. So you can download

1:41.3

it all for free, okay, if you're an academy member. And also, anybody that joins the academy, so the membership over at Scottsbayessence.com, before April the 9th. Okay. So anybody that joins before April the 9th. So that's in a few days time. Okay, anybody that joins before April the 9th is also going to get a download link

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