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Majid Bekkas, Nguyên Lê, Hamid Drake: Boom Boom

Read "Majid Bekkas, Nguyên Lê, Hamid Drake: Boom Boom" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


At a time of daunting provincialism and tribal regression, jazz remains one of the few welcoming oases for the globally minded. If you're one of then, enjoy this track, feauturing a Moroccan oud and guembri player--and vocalist--Majid Bekkas, a Franco Vietnamese guitarist, Nguyen Le, and a living legend of the Chicago scene like drummer Hamid Drake, playing in Germany--at the Berlin Philarmonie--a cover of John Lee Hooker's “Boom Boom"--just one of the many highlights from their latest album, ...

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Majid Bekkas: Mabrouk

Read "Mabrouk" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Bekkas is a leading Gnawa musician who sings and plays the oud, as well as acoustic guitar and guembri, the three-stringed bass-like instrument that provides the trance-inducing pulse of Gnawa music. The Gnawa, in turn, are spiritual brotherhoods formed in Morocco among slaves brought there from sub-Saharan Africa over the centuries. Bekkas has collaborated with a number of jazz players, including saxophonist Archie Shepp, pianist Joachim Kuhn and drummer Hamid Drake, concentrating on the more adventurous end of the jazz ...

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Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez: Chalaba

Read "Chalaba" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dopo Kalimba e Out of the Desert, è questo il terzo CD del trio Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez edito dalla Act in cinque anni e non è insignificante il fatto che, come quello immediatamente precedente, esso sia stato prodotto dagli stessi musicisti, a dimostrazione di quanto essi credano nel loro sodalizio. Tutto risulta accattivante in Chalaba, i cui nove brani, a firma ora di Kühn ora di Bekkas (a parte “Soon in June" che è firmato ...

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Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez: Out of the Desert

Read "Out of the Desert" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Al primo ascolto di questo CD è sorta spontanea una domanda di carattere etico-contenutistico. All'inizio ed alla fine del lungo e avvincente “One, Two, Free," a firma di Kühn, la voce salmodiante di uno dei due cantanti, presumibilmente Majid Bekkas, inneggia ad Allah ed al profeta Maometto; la stessa cosa accadeva in “Hamdouchi," brano contenuto nel precedente CD del trio Kühn-Bekkas-Lopez. Per valutare quanto l'operazione discografica sia autentica e plausibile, mi sono quindi chiesto se anche da parte del pianista ...


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