ABDULLAH MINIAWY TRIO - IS IT JAZZ ?

AWARD-WINNING SINGER, POET, AUTHOR AND COMPOSER ABDULLAH MINIAWY PRESENTS PEACOCK DREAMS, HIS LATEST ALBUM. AWARDED AT THE VICTOIRES DU JAZZ FOR LE CRI DU CAIRE, MINIAWY HAS ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A SINGULAR VOICE ON THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ AND EXPERIMENTAL SCENES, WHERE POETRY, POLITICAL URGENCY AND MUSICAL EXPLORATION MEET. DRAWING ON JAZZ, ARABIC MUSICAL TRADITIONS AND EXPERIMENTAL SOUND PRACTICES, MINIAWY TREATS THE VOICE AS AN INSTRUMENT AND POETRY AS MATERIAL, ALLOWING TEXT, BREATH AND SOUND TO COLLIDE AND RESHAPE ONE ANOTHER. FOR THIS PERFORMANCE, HE IS JOINED BY TROMBONISTS ROBINSON KHOURY (PRIX DJANGO REINHARDT 2024) AND JULES BOITTIN. TOGETHER, THE TRIO CRAFTS A POWERFUL, SHIFTING SONIC LANDSCAPE, WHERE TENSION, LYRICISM AND ABSTRACTION COEXIST. THE ALBUM ALSO FEATURES COLLABORATIONS WITH ERIK TRUFFAZ, FURTHER EXPANDING ITS EXPRESSIVE RANGE. IS IT JAZZ? IS A CONCERT SERIES THAT EXPLORES HOW GENRES, LISTENING HABITS AND MUSICAL COMMUNITIES ARE FORMED AND TRANSFORMED.