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Ibrahim Maalouf at Muziekgebouw Aan 't Ij

Courtesy of Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ - Amsterdam | Posted on May 23, 2014

Where

Muziekgebouw Aan 't Ij
Piet Heinkade 1
Amsterdam
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When

Fri, October 31, 2014
20:15

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Musicians

About

He’s a superstar in France and he was the critic’s darling at North Sea Jazz: trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf captivates everyone who listens. His music is based on melody, but moves fluently from jazz to Arabic, Balkan, rock and hip-hop. Vital sources of inspiration are the hushed tones of Miles Davis and the heavy guitar solos of Led Zeppelin.

Ibrahim Maalouf wrote his first melody in his war-torn native Beirut. With his parents he fled from Lebanon to Paris. He was classically trained on a special trumpet, invented by his father Nassim, which can play the quarter tones in Arabic scales. Ibrahim left the Orchestre de Paris for his own band, which is strongly influenced by the electric jazz of miles Davis and Marcus Miller, as well as the hip-hop of the suburbs he grew up in....

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Concerts

Apr 17 Wed
Apr 26 Fri
Ibrahim Maalouf
MTELUS
Montreal, Canada

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