Jazz Articles about Tarek Yamani

About Tarek Yamani

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Dorota Piotrowska & Sound Circle feat. Greg Osby: Voices of Human Consciousness

Read "Voices of Human Consciousness" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 15, 2026

La quarantaduenne batterista polacca Dorota Piotrowska riunisce in questo ambizioso album un supergruppo in cui spicca il sax alto di Greg Osby, accanto ad altri strumentisti tutti di livello dal buono in su, che --ciascuno con le proprie specificità--contribuiscono alla riuscita del lavoro, composito, articolato, fra episodi più squisitamente jazzistici e altri in cui i luoghi di provenienza dei musicisti coinvolti (in totale si toccano Stati Uniti, Polonia, Libano, Cuba e Norvegia) assumono il giusto peso. Nel complesso ...

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Take Five with Tarek Yamani

by AAJ Staff
April 12, 2018

About Tarek Yamani Born and raised in Beirut, Tarek is an American-Lebanese New York based self-taught jazz pianist who has been dedicated to exploring relationships between African-American Jazz and Arabic rhythms/maqams which are most evident in his second album Lisan Al Tarab: Jazz Conceptions in Classical Arabic, and in his newly released Peninsular which fuses jazz with the rhythms of the Arabian Peninsula. Winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Composers Competition, Tarek has been fortunate ...

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Tarek Yamani: Peninsular

Read "Peninsular" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

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 tradition of the countries on the Arab peninsula that border the Persian Gulf. The melancholic “Gates of Tears" opens on a somber ...

Album Review

Tarek Yamani: Lisan Al Tarab

Read "Lisan Al Tarab" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
August 14, 2014

Pianist Tarek Yamani's second release Lisãn Al Tarab is a sublime and innovative exploration of the common ground between Jazz and Arabic musical heritage. The title loosely translates as “Language of the Music" although there is no equivalent word to tarab in English. Tarab is the unique concept of music fused with its ecstatic, emotional impact, and has become synonymous with classical Arab song. Enough of crude attempts at linguistics and on to Yamani's album, which is not ...

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Tarek Yamani Trio: Ashur

by Jerry D'Souza
October 20, 2012

Accolades often disappear in the mists of time but Tarek Yamani who won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composer's Award 2010, for “Sama'i Yamani," stamps his credentials in no uncertain terms on Ashur. Born in Lebanon, he is a self-taught pianist who found his groove in several styles including hip-hop, Afro-Cuban and flamenco music. He began concentrating on jazz in 2004 and has gone on to make his mark in the genre. When the inaugural International Jazz Day was proclaimed ...