Category: DISCOG

Albums I’ve made

LISTEN A jazz guitar and voice duo album, pure and organic featuring Radha Thomas singing 10 standards from her soul with master guitar players Reg Schwager, Pete McCann, Paul Meyers and Tom Dempsey. LINER NOTES BY SCOTT YANOW Jazz has been an international music ever since recordings became widely available in the early 1920s. Radha […]

This is a version where I’ve written lyrics to Chet Baker’s famous trumpet solo where he performed with Paul Desmond (alto sax), bob James (Keyboards), Ron Carter (contrabass), Steve Gadd (drums). This is just Voice and bass, featuring Mauro Sereno (@MrSunnybass) from Italy. As always Ramjee put the video together for me.

There have been many, many, many #jazzsingers​ and #jazzinstrumentalists​ who’ve covered #ButNotForMe​ in the past 90 years, when it was first written by #GeorgeandIraGershwin​ for a musical. Including #ChetBaker​, who both sang and took a #trumpetsolo​. And since I love writing lyrics and then singing his solos, that’s what I’ve done here. #Vocalese​, they call […]

By Dick Metcalf, editor, Contemporary Fusion Reviews – September 7, 2020 #Totally #unique #vocal #jazz #Radha #Thomas #Aman #Mahajan Totally unique vocal jazz Radha Thomas & Aman Mahajan – BANGALORE BLUES:  There’s one word that comes to mind (immediately) as I listen to Radha’s totally unique vocal jazz – BREATHLESS… her pacing and presence will have you […]

    By Garry Booth, 15 June 2020 It’s surprising that Indian musicians haven’t made greater inroads into jazz. Of course, there are significant examples of Western players being influenced by Indian music and Indian instrumentalists have also featured in jazz settings, most memorably in John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu and Shakti groups. But Indian jazz singers […]

  Many people ask me if I have any music from the time I was the lead singer in the Human Bondage, a rock and roll band in India, led my my then-husband Suresh Shottam and his brother Ramesh Shotham. Yes, they had different spellings for their last name. They have another brother Naresh, whose […]

Jim Hynes / 29 April 2020 Radha Thomas, a veteran rock and jazz vocalist who is also Indian classically trained, joins with improvisational pianist Aman Mahajan for this spare duo performance where both contribute compositions, with Thomas responsible for the lyrics. Thomas sings while Mahajan plays either acoustic piano or Fender Rhodes across seven songs, […]