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Internationales Jazz Festival Münster 2017
by Henning Bolte
Theater Münster Münster, Germany Internationales Jazz Festival 2017 January 6-8, 2017 Münster, city of 300,000 inhabitants, situated in the northern part of German state North Rhine-Westphalia, with 18 million inhabitants the most populous state of Germany, has an ambitious biannual jazz festival now in its 27th year. The northern part of ...
Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2014
by Vincenzo Roggero
Saalfelden 28-31.08.2014 A bocce ferme il 35° Jazzfestival di Saalfelden presentava un programma meno appariscente rispetto a precedenti edizioni, con meno densità di nomi altisonanti e meno eventi imperdibili. Ma forse proprio per la mancanza di aspettative clamorose, grazie alla solida direzione artistica tra certezze e curiosità e per quelle alchimie speciali che regolano ...
Jazzablanca Festival 2014: Casablanca, Morocco
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by Mehdi El Mouden
Hippodrome Anfa Jazzablanca Festival Casablanca, Morocco March 29-April 3, 2014 Jazz breathes new life through the Jazzablanca Festival. Rethinking Jazz culture is a difficult process, as no findings about jazz audiences in Morocco exist. Jazz is only brought to the fore of discussion at festival time. The media does not publicize ...
Joachim Kuhn: Voodoo Sense
by Ian Patterson
The fourth outing from German pianist Joachim Kühn, Moroccan vocalist and guembri (bass lute) player Majid Bekkas, and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez continues the trio's exploration into free-jazz and North African roots that began with Kalimba ( ACT Music, 2007). The percussion and rhythms of the Magreb were more prominent on Out of the Desert (ACT ...
Mabrouk
By Majid Bekkas
Label: Bee Jazz
Released: 2012
Track listing: Banya; Fangara; Mabrouk; Salya; Masmoudi; Bala Moussa; Le Monde
à l'envers; Hommage aux ancêtres.
Majid Bekkas: Mabrouk
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Bekkas is a leading Gnawa musician who sings and plays the oud, as well as acoustic guitar and guembri, the three-stringed bass-like instrument that provides the trance-inducing pulse of Gnawa music. The Gnawa, in turn, are spiritual brotherhoods formed in Morocco among slaves brought there from sub-Saharan Africa over the centuries. Bekkas has collaborated with a ...
Chalaba
By Majid Bekkas
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2011
Track listing:
1. Enjoy - 05:12; 2. Asmaa - 07:02; 3. Back to Normal - 04:37; 4. Play Golf in the Fresh - 04:41; 5. Chalaba - 09:54; 6. Soon in June - 06:52; 7. Hamdouchia - 05:14;
8. The Second Egg - 05:41; 9. Mimoun Saadiyamou - 04:54.
Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez: Chalaba
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo Kalimba e Out of the Desert, è questo il terzo CD del trio Joachim Kühn - Majid Bekkas - Ramon Lopez edito dalla Act in cinque anni e non è insignificante il fatto che, come quello immediatamente precedente, esso sia stato prodotto dagli stessi musicisti, a dimostrazione di quanto essi credano nel loro sodalizio. Tutto ...
Chellah Jazz
By Mehdi El Mouden To share passion for music is to play jazz in Chellah, the site is historic and the music is anthological. Chellah, the old historical city of Merinids in Morocco, Rabat hosts a jazz festival every year in June. Musicians come from all around Europe to meet Moroccan musicians for an unprecedented encounter ...
Out of the Desert
By Majid Bekkas
Label: ACT Music
Released: 2009
Track listing:
1. Foulani (M. Bekkas) - 06:41; 2. Transmitting (J. Kühn) - 09:53; 3. One, Two, Free (J. Kühn) - 12:29;
4. Sandia (M. Bekkas) - 07:38; 5. Seawalk (J. Kühn) - 07:42; 6. Chadiye (M. Bekkas) - 08:27.
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