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Dhafer Youssef

Late junction (BBC) presenter Fiona Talkington explains how an exceptional young Tunisian musician found his creative home in Europe. A small seaside town in Tunisia in the 1970s. A boy walks along a deserted shoreline picking up the odds and ends he finds lying around: A broken fishing net; a few discarded sardine cans; spokes from an old bicycle. His heart and mind are full of music and he wants to play. It's as much as his father can do to put food on the table for Dhafer and his seven brothers and sisters. There certainly isn't spare money for music lessons, let alone for an instrument

Omar Sosa: Building Bridges Not Walls

by Duncan Heining
May 2, 2019

Cuban-born pianist, Omar Sosa is a passionate man. Music, religion, family, his relationship to the planet—all these are inseparable to an artist whose musical world is steeped in the Afro-Cuban heritage that he draws upon so personally and individually in his work. Spinning culinary metaphors to describe the processes of music-making, he sings the praises of ...

Dairo Miyamoto: Last Picture

by Friedrich Kunzmann
November 26, 2018

Now here is one very special album by an exceptional artist, who created his own unique little ethereal space in this vast musical landscape. Known for having been trumpeter Jun Miyake 's go-to mulit-instrumentalist and close friend, the late Dairo Miyamoto leaves behind an exceptional body of work for the world to discover and tops it ...

Rain Sultanov: Putting Baku On The Jazz Map

by Ian Patterson
November 20, 2018

The Baku Jazz Festival has been a labor of love for its founder and Artistic Director, Rain Sultanov. And, like most love stories, there have been a few bumps along the road. Thirteen editions in, however, the Baku Jazz Festival is well established as one of the highpoints of Azerbaijan's annual cultural calendar. It mightn't draw ...

Time in Jazz 2018 - Day Concerts

by Roberto Cifarelli
September 15, 2018

Time in Jazz 2018

by Roberto Cifarelli
August 24, 2018

Time in Jazz 2018

by Libero Farnè
August 21, 2018

Time in Jazz Varie sedi Berchidda e altri comuni 08-16.08.2018 Ogni festival vive di costanti e variabili. Le prime rappresentano le scelte di fondo maturate nel tempo, le certezze organizzative ed estetiche che determinano, anche agli occhi degli spettatori, la riconoscibile identità della manifestazione. Le seconde esprimono l'esigenza di rinnovamento, sperimentando ...

Ljubljana International Jazz Festival 2018

by Francesco Martinelli
July 7, 2018

Ljubljana International Jazz Festival Cankarjev Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia June 27-30, 2018 The Slovenian capital of jny: Ljubljana has rightly become in the last few years one of the most loved tourist destinations in Europe. Hugged by its namesake river, crossing it with a variety of bridges, the city ...

Randy Brecker Quintet: Live at Sweet Basil 1988

by John Kelman
June 5, 2018

Randy Brecker Quintet Live at Sweet Basil 1988 MVDvisual2018 Culled from direct-to-two-track digital recordings made on three of Randy Brecker's potent six-night 1988 run at New York City's Sweet Basil, and featuring a particularly top-drawer quintet of musical friends old and new, the original 1989 LP/CD release of Live at Sweet ...

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 ...