Jazz Articles about Marwan Allam

Marwan Allam: a Tunisian Gateway to Modern Jazz

by Lawrence Peryer
December 14, 2024

Marwan Allam's Bab Bhar: The Travelling Tale Of Tunis

by Ngwako Malakalaka
August 27, 2024

Marwan Allam's debut Bab Bhar combines Arabic, North African and Andalusian forms with modern jazz, to create a synthesis that sets the musical languages of the traditional, within the framework of the new. The album is named after the gate that connects the old and new cities of Tunis, and Allam's compositions build a bridge between old musics and new by building on rhythms, metres, idioms and intonations that the jazz listener would not expect to hear in a ...