(Anotherwo/Plaza Major Company/Sony Music/InQuie Distribution/VeevCom) 2024.
CD/digital
Contemporary jazz
The world premiere of Yacine Malek Double Trio’s concert album will be on November 15, 2024, while the single and so call “leading” track “Tallal” is available on all relevant platforms and streaming places from September 13. Also, his actual work will be presented live on stage on December 12, 2024 at “Studio de L’Ermitage” in Paris.
Yacine Malek is an emotional, “lyrical” and exceptionally well-educated pianist, whose experience deserves respect and admiration, even though he is still far from his potentially more creative period. With his musical collaborators, he prepared on the “Live In Paris” album 6 themes/instrumental compositions, which touch the spheres of contemporary jazz, where clear “flashes”, towards some earlier decades are obvious and unavoidable. Although his playing passages are naturally and “spontaneously” performed, well thought out, and we notice that practically no improvisation exist, or better to say, they are not performed in the “usual” way. Let me mention once again how much emotion this pianist brings through his playing virtuosity, and not the rare changes of rhythms in the tracks themselves, confirm how the arrangements subtly but effectively prove the presence of modern understanding of jazz.
This is one of those releases, which I believe, you will often listen to again and again, because the exceptional musicianship, and the great atmosphere that Yacine Malek and his band have created, are easily transferred to the listener, and not only those who are inclined to this type of music form.
okt 10 2024
YACIN MALEK DOUBLE TRIO – “Live In Paris”
(Anotherwo/Plaza Major Company/Sony Music/InQuie Distribution/VeevCom) 2024.
CD/digital
Contemporary jazz
The world premiere of Yacine Malek Double Trio’s concert album will be on November 15, 2024, while the single and so call “leading” track “Tallal” is available on all relevant platforms and streaming places from September 13. Also, his actual work will be presented live on stage on December 12, 2024 at “Studio de L’Ermitage” in Paris.
Yacine Malek is an emotional, “lyrical” and exceptionally well-educated pianist, whose experience deserves respect and admiration, even though he is still far from his potentially more creative period. With his musical collaborators, he prepared on the “Live In Paris” album 6 themes/instrumental compositions, which touch the spheres of contemporary jazz, where clear “flashes”, towards some earlier decades are obvious and unavoidable. Although his playing passages are naturally and “spontaneously” performed, well thought out, and we notice that practically no improvisation exist, or better to say, they are not performed in the “usual” way. Let me mention once again how much emotion this pianist brings through his playing virtuosity, and not the rare changes of rhythms in the tracks themselves, confirm how the arrangements subtly but effectively prove the presence of modern understanding of jazz.
This is one of those releases, which I believe, you will often listen to again and again, because the exceptional musicianship, and the great atmosphere that Yacine Malek and his band have created, are easily transferred to the listener, and not only those who are inclined to this type of music form.
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