Jazz Articles about Tigran Hamasyan

About Tigran Hamasyan

Album Review

Se è vero che, armonicamente, non ci sia più nulla da scoprire e che, ritmicamente, non ci sia più nulla di rilevante da cercare oltre ciò che è stato prodotto finora, è altrettanto vero che il 99% delle idee ritmiche più interessanti sono state create dai maestri della musica indiana carnatica. E allora tutto si riduce a ciò che vogliamo fare con la musica. A ciò che amiamo della musica. A ciò che sentiamo. Questi sono ...

Interview

Tigran Hamasyan’s Manifeste Destiny

by John Chacona
May 11, 2026

Tigran Hamasyan does not shy away from the big gesture. His fearsome keyboard technique, compositional ambition and improvisational daring have defined his international career, which ignited at age 18 with the release of his first album, World Passion (Plus Loin Music, 2006). Two decades later, these qualities have been refined and expanded with the results on display on his 2026 Naive Records release Manifeste. Yet in conversation, Hamasyan was thoughtful, reserved, and deeply in touch with the culture ...

Album Review

Tigran Hamasyan: Manifeste

Read "Manifeste" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 2, 2026

One would not be accused of spreading false theory if one were broadcasting the news that Armenian pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan has a riot of ideas about things a lot of us take for granted or do not consider at all. Because Hamasyan, winner of the Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition in 2003, puts it all out there with Manifeste. Hamasyan has clearly mastered the richly progressive vein of hard rock, prog rock, avant-garde fusion, and, most importantly, ...

Radio & Podcasts

Tigran Hamasyan, Dwiki Dhawarman, Richard D Ruttenberg, Jean Paul Bourelly, Derek Sherinian and much more

by Len Davis
March 1, 2026

New music from keyboard player Tigran Hamasyan featuring jazz and Armenian folk influences, Indonesias premier keyboard player Dwiki Dharwaman with some exotic sounding jazz and keyboard player Richard D Ruttenberg with his masterful use of electronic percussion with Bassist Jimmy Haslip adding special touches. French guitarist Tom Bernard with Indian bass sensation Mohini Dey, British guitarist Jack Gardiner with Swiss bassist Henrik Linder and some soothing sounds from acoustic guitarist James Filkins and fretless bassist Michael Manring. We finish off ...

Radio & Podcasts

Martin Wind, Dimitri Nassar, Toninato & Thiessen, Tigran Hamasyan

by Cheryl K.
February 16, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, pianist Lucian Ban, reed player John Surman, and violist Mat Maneri; bassist Martin Wind; vocalist Maja Jaku; pianists Wajdi Cherif, Dimitri Nassar, and Tigran Hamasyan; saxophonist Ida Toninato and violist Jennifer Thiessen; and drummer Ryan Scott.Playlist John Carter “Moon Waltz" from Dance of the Love Ghosts (Gramavision) 7:04 Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri/ “Dark Forest" from Cantica Profana: The Bela Bartok Field Recordings (Sunnyside) 4:54 Tommy Halferty “La Mine" ...

Radio & Podcasts

Tigran Hamasyan, Randy Hoexter, Igor Wilcox and Japanese band Trix

by Len Davis
September 22, 2024

This show includes music from Armenian keyboard player Tigran Hamasyan with his latest, pianist and composer Randy Hoexter with Jimmy Haslip, the Igor Willcox Quartet, German duo Nils Wulker and Arne Jansen, and keyboard player Will Lowry. Guitarist's Plini and Kiko Loureiro, Japanese band Trix, French trumpeter Erik Truffaz, El Trio-Live with John Beasley and Andrew Renfro and Curtis Nowosad. Playlist Tigran Hamasyan “The Quest Begins" from The Bird Of A Thousand Voices (Naive) 00:00 Randy Hoexter “Particle ...

Radio & Podcasts

The Aristocrats, Tigram Hamasyan, Lyle Workman and Jizue

by Len Davis
September 8, 2024

New releases from The Aristocrats, Tigran Hamasyan, Polish band EABS, and Japanese band Jizue. Lyle Workman, Bill Laurence, Forq, Amsterdam funk band The Jig with saxophonist Bill Evans and Scott Kinsey's Luniwaz--Live. Playlist The Aristocrats “Aristoclub" from Duck (Boing) 00:00 Fiasco “Drop Test" from anger artist (Unit Records) 06:05 Tigran Hamaysan “Only The One Who Brought The Bird Can Sing" from The Bird Of A Thousand Voices (Naive) 11:53 EABS “Boratka" from Reflections Of Purple Sun (Astigmatic) 17:50 Jizue ...