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Marwan Allam: a Tunisian Gateway to Modern Jazz
by Lawrence Peryer
Innovative bassist and composer Marwan Allam joins Spotlight On host Lawrence Peryer to discuss his album Bab Bhar (Self-Released, 2024), which deftly puts Arabic rhythms and Tunisian musical traditions into the hands of a contemporary jazz quartet. ...
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by Ngwako Malakalaka
Marwan Allam's debut?Bab Bhar combines Arabic, North African and Andalusian forms with modern jazz, to create a synthesis that sets the musical languages of the traditional, within the framework of the new. The album is named after the gate that connects the old and new cities of Tunis, and Allam's compositions build a bridge between old musics and new by building on rhythms, metres, idioms and intonations that the jazz listener would not expect to hear in a ...
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