Jazz Articles about Yacine Boulares

About Yacine Boulares

Album Review

Il sassofonista e clarinettista di origini tunisine Yacine Boulares presenta qui un'interessantissima suite di musica originale, ispirata però ad Abu Sadiya, mitica figura dell'XI secolo appartenente alla tradizione tunisina che Boulares ha conosciuto attraverso i racconti del padre. Originario dell'Africa sub sahariana, probabilmente del Mali, giunto in Tunisia alla ricerca della figlia rapita e ridotta in schiavitù, Abu Sadiya fu una guida spirituale per gli schiavi tunisini, ma anche un musicista che dette origine allo Stambeli, forma di musica rituale ...

Interview

Yacine Boularès: Coltrane by way of Descartes

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 26, 2018

Saxophonist Yacine Boularès took the road less travelled to discover and develop his passion for jazz. After graduating in philosophy from the prestigious Sorbonne University in Paris, he felt the urge to put into practice the notions of aesthetics he had researched for his dissertation. Following his studies at Paris' Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and then at the New School for Jazz in New York, he set off on a professional journey that has unfolded at the intersection of ...