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Magic Malik: Fanfare XP3

Read "Fanfare XP3" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Autori sempre diversi (solo il leader ne firma due) per dieci brani immersi in un morbido contesto che è fin troppo agevole definire di emanazione davisiana (post-Bitches Brew, per capirci), con colori per lo più molto calibrati, chiari, avvolgenti: ecco cosa ci offre--ampiamente secondo copione--questo nuovo lavoro del cinquantaquattrenne flautista franco-antillano (ma ivoriano di nascita) Magic Malik, al secolo Malik Mezzadri, il cui gruppo, forte di dodici elementi (con raddoppio di flauti, sassofoni e ottoni), agisce nel segno di un'ammirevole ...

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Magic Malik Fanfare XP3 at New Morning

Read "Magic Malik Fanfare XP3 at New Morning" reviewed by Bertrand Herer


Magic Malik Fanfare XP3 New Morning Paris, FranceMarch 26, 2023 The New Morning is located in the center of Paris, one mile from the now, sadly, infamous Bataclan. The late Roy Hargrove loved this place and wrote “Strasbourg Saint Denis" in reference to this venue. On Saturday, March 26, 2023, the club featured the band Magic Malik Fanfare XP3. This band is led by “Magic" Malik Mezzadri, born in Abidjan and raised on ...

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Magic Malik: Alternate Steps

Read "Alternate Steps" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


Flutist Malik Mezzadri grew up on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, and moved to France to study at the conservatory in Marseille when he was 17. There he would win the first prize in flute; for more than twenty years, his subsequent idiosyncratic career as Magic Malik has seen him energetically flitting about the territory where jazz gives way to other musical forms: contemporary classical, pop, various kinds of experimentation. He has often organized his own groups' music in the ...

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Fanfare XP3

Onze Heures Onze
2023

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Tranz Denied

Debacle Records
2013

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Alternate Steps

Bee Jazz
2012

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Altiplano

Self Produced
2008

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