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4th Mediterranean Jazz Festival NYC on January 18/19 2020

Escape the cold New York winter, let our artists take you on a journey and discover contemporary sounds from Athens, Beirut or Barcelona. After an amazing night on January 13, 2019 where five bands performed for a packed Drom, the MJF is back with its 4th edition. The festival continues to highlight a Mediterranean perspective on jazz and for the first time the festival will take place on two nights.

January 18th

Multi-instrumentalist Adam Maalouf will kick off the festival with a solo set presenting new material and compositions from his last album Path of Time. Adam who was born in the US to Lebanese descent, combines influences form the Middle East (and beyond) with electronica and live looping. Adam is also considered one of the most innovative and masterful players of the pantam, aka hang or handpan, the "flying saucer" instrument invented in the year 2000.

Following, the Bulgarian Voices Trio will join forces with jazz pianist Angelo di Loreto for a very special one-time performance that was commissioned by MJFNY. Singers Vlada Tomova, Valentina Kvasova and Shelley Thomas, who have performed at Lincoln Center among other places, weave together traditional Bulgarian village styles with artfully arranged a ca****la songs that reveal the disarming power and intimacy of the voice. Their reinterpretations of ancient songs tell timeless tales of sweet or forbidden love, horses and wild mountains, potent wine, the secrets of the moon, and the sun’s falling in love with a beautiful girl and her song. Joyous, mysterious, mournful, exuberant, mesmerizing melodies; rich, unusual harmonies; and peculiar, odd rhythms come together to shimmer, intrigue, and delight the ear.

The first night will conclude with a performance by the Carola Ortiz Trio feat. John King. Ortiz is a free bird and one of the most dynamic musicians of the new generation of Catalan artists. Both a singer and a clarinet player, she is active not only on the jazz scene, but on the singer-songwriter and world music scenes as well. Her most ambitious work to date, Sirin, not only brings together Barcelona musicians from different fields – jazz, flamenco, Brazilian music, and Argentinian folklore – but underlines the historical mestizo character of Barcelona’s popular music. She will perform with her regular trio featuring Sandrine Robilliard (cello) and Bartolomeo Barenghi (guitar). The group will invite composer/sound artist John King to premiere a few compositions from an upcoming collaboration.

January 19

This evening will start with bassist-composer Petros Klampanis whom Downbeat magazine called “a musician who has always spoken from the heart” will present music from his latest release Irrationalitieswith pianist Kristjan Randalu, one of Europe’s most prolific pianists who has worked with Dhafer Youssef, Nguyên Lê, and the London Symphony Orchestra to name a few. The two musicians will explore the sonic world of piano and bass to converse and challenge each other as well as invite vocalist Eleni Arapoglou to join them in this dialogue.

Next, Panagiotis Andreou who is without a doubt one of the most original voices on the electric bass today, will follow. He is known for his dynamic performances with groups such as ‘Now vs Now’, ‘New York Gypsy All Stars’ and ‘La Clave Secreta’. Andreou will perform a solo set that will showcase his incredible vocal skills as he takes his listeners on a rollercoaster ride from the Balkans and Greece all the way to India.

After, Layale Chaker Sarafand who is deemed a "Rising Star" by BBC Music Magazine and raised on the verge of several musical streams since her childhood, will take the stage. Layale Chaker is a Lebanese violinist and composer and she will present her debut album "Inner Rhyme" which is woven as a suite that explores aesthetics of Arabic poetry. Composed between Beirut, Paris, and London, the album unveils musical threads that are mapped through the rhythmical cycles of the twelve classical Arabic poetic meters, the fluidity of oral and free forms, the abstraction of language into the physical contour of verses and the percussive potential of words. The music captures the shape and essence of epic testimonials on life, death, war, and love that make the heart of Arabic poetry. Feat. Jake Charkey (cello), Phillip Golub (piano), Nick Dunston (bass) and Adam Maalouf (percussion)

The evening and event will conclude with Mediterranean Miles, a tribute to Miles Davis with a Mediterranean perspective. Led by virtuoso vibraphonist Christos Rafalides, this performance will include many of the performers of this years’ festival that will collectively pay homage to the legend by performing their original arrangements of Miles Davis compositions.

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