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Ibrahim Maalouf: Red & Black Light

Read "Red & Black Light" reviewed by Luca Muchetti


Alla fine del 2016 lo abbiamo visto duettare con Sting sul palco del Bataclan note di “Ishallah," sulle orme di una speranza possibile e necessaria. Oggi riascoltiamo Ibrahim Maalouf nel suo Red & Black Light, ultima fatica in studio pubblicata dalla Impulse!, terreno liquido nel quale lungo otto tracce il trombettista franco-libanese getta ponti fra mondi e linguaggi differenti. Occidente e oriente dialogano infatti nel mélange di suoni vicini a un funk elettrico e attraversati da rotte ...

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Ibrahim Maalouf: Kalthoum

Read "Kalthoum" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Furono oltre tre milioni le persone provenienti da tutto il mondo e radunatesi nella capitale egiziana nel febbraio del 1975 per formare un corteo di oltre dieci chilometri al funerale di Oum Kalthoum, “la stella d'oriente," straordinaria cantante, idolo musicale di tutto il mondo arabo. A questa leggendaria figura è ispirato l'album Kalthoum registrato dal trombettista Ibrahim Maalouf, origini libanesi, residenza a Parigi. Tributo che presenta uno dei più grandi successi della diva, ossia “Le mille e ...

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Ibrahim Maalouf at Jazzablanca Festival 2014

Read "Ibrahim Maalouf at Jazzablanca Festival 2014" reviewed by Mehdi El Mouden


Ibrahim Maalouf Hippodrome Anfa Jazzablanca Festival Casablanca, Morocco March 31, 2014 Before composer and trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf stepped onto the stage, the audience of Jazzablanca Festival was already cheering wildly. There was a general feeling that his concert would be a memorable one, for fans eager to attend this performance. Scheduled on the third day of the festival and subsequent to Joss Stone and Stacey Kent, Maalouf drew crowds. On the eve of the ...

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Album Review

Ibrahim Maalouf: Diagnostic

Read "Diagnostic" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Much like his uncle, the celebrated author Amin Maalouf--who brought Levantine raconteur to the western novel--trumpeter/composer Ibrahim Maalouf infuses his jazz with Middle Eastern musicality. On Diagnostic--the last installment of a trilogy--Maalouf actually draws from many different sources to create a unique sound that remains definitely in the jazz tradition. The all-woman, Franco-Brazilian Batacuda group Zalindê brings a Latin sound to pieces like to “Maeva in Wonderland," especially after the midpoint, when Maalouf switches from trumpet to ...

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Album Review

Ibrahim Maalouf: Diasporas

Read "Diasporas" reviewed by Chris May


Paris-based trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf's moody mix of jazz, groove and Lebanese traditional music comes across rather like a cut-up novel by William Burroughs or a collection of short stories by Paul Bowles, or at least a shot in that direction. Partly it's the source material, in which Maalouf's east Mediterranean musical heritage replaces those authors' fascination with Morocco; partly it's the structure of the album, in which a series of relatively brief, cross-referential tracks, most lasting between two and less ...

Album Review

Ibrahim Maalouf: Diasporas

Read "Diasporas" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Trent'anni (a breve), nativo di Beirut ma francese d'adozione, Ibrahim Maalouf è personaggio piuttosto stimolante, con collaborazioni che spaziano da Archie Shepp a Sting. Da noi lo si è visto al penultimo Bergamo Jazz duettare con la conturbante danzatrice Fanny Coulm, mentre di un paio d'anni precedente è questo suo album d'esordio, di cui il trombettista libanese è l'assoluto protagonista (un po' come accade al nostro Li Calzi), pur attorniato da un cospicuo manipolo di coéquipiers, di cui rimane pur ...


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