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Khaled Yassine

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2023

by Mark Sullivan
July 19, 2023

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec June 29-July 3, 2023 The 2023 festival continued the broad offering of free shows that was so prominent last year. They were frequently strong enough to vie with the ticketed concerts (which were also quite diverse and featured marquee artists from jazz and adjacent ...

Maurice Louca: Saet El-Hazz

by Neri Pollastri
August 15, 2022

Un disco davvero assai singolare questo Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour), il quarto del multistrumentista e compositore egiziano Maurice Louca, che vi sintetizza gli esiti della sua multiforme ricerca nella musica sperimentale, elettronica e tradizionale del suo paese, guidando una formazione con strumenti quasi esclusivamente occidentali (a parte dei metallofoni di origine indonesiana) senza tuttavia concedere ...

Transmigration

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Betcha Sting; WWMD; Intro to Modjadji; Modjadji; Ever Recurring Story of September; Papa Bear; Someday My Prince Will Come; Mine Or Blues; Let Me Finish.

Saet El-Hazz

Label: Northern Spy Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: El-Fazza’ah (The Slip and Slide); Bidayat (Holocena); Yara’ (Fire Files); Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour); El Gullashah (Full Tongue); Higamah (Hirudinea

Makram Aboul Hosn: The Spirit Lives

by Ian Patterson
April 22, 2021

Music does not have the power to right the wrongs of the world, but when it works its magic, it can soothe troubled souls and uplift battered spirits like few other things. Lebanese bassist/composer Makram Aboul Hosn's second album, Transmigration (Self Produced, 2021) is proof of that. It is a fine album, steeped in ...

Makram Aboul Hosn: Transmigration

by Ian Patterson
April 16, 2021

It is testament to bassist/composer Makram Aboul Hosn's tenacity that Transmigration has seen the light of day at all. Awarded a grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture at the end of 2019, the Lebanese bassist had been all set to record the album in Europe with an international line-up. Then Covid-19 struck, adding ...

Tarek Yamani: Peninsular

by Hrayr Attarian
April 16, 2017

On his third release Peninsular, pianist and composer Tarek Yamani continues to explore the amalgamation of Arabic music and American jazz. His work is more than a simple juxtaposition of disparate styles as it is built upon shared elements in both genres. On the current album, commissioned for the Abou Dhabi festival, Yamani's focus is folk ...

Donna Khalife Quintet: Heavy Dance

by Hrayr Attarian
March 14, 2017

Lebanese bassist and vocalist Donna Khalife is an accomplished and prize winning musician. A child prodigy she received a premier education both in Lebanon and France and has forged lasting relations with musicians from both countries. Her quintet's debut release, Heavy Dance, is a testament to her multi-pronged talent as it showcases Khalife leading the band ...

Anouar Brahem at Jazzablanca Festival 2015

by Mehdi El Mouden
May 2, 2015

Anouar Brahem Hippodrome Anfa Jazzablanca Festival Casablanca, MoroccoApril 20, 2015 Tunisian oudist/ composer Anouar Brahem is widely acclaimed as a pioneer of the fusion between Middle Eastern music and jazz, with a career spanning over thirty years. In the beginning of the nineties he contributed to the oud ...