The album Maghreb Jazz Guitar by guitar specialist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk will be re-issued on the 26th of July 2024.
Here is the release text from the artist management.
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Re-release of the album Maghreb Jazz Guitar (2006), that won a RadioIndy golden artist award in the USA in 2008
The album can be seen as one of first in the development of the Maghreb Jazz music style.
Extraordinarily
gifted, classically trained Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk has
put together an interesting band of North African musicians to create a
group that’s able to navigate the crosscurrents between guitar-led jazz
and Moroccan Maghreb music.
The more openly energetic moments on the
album come on the original numbers, such as the spidery Weather
Report-like fusion of “I Blaed I Musiqya” (inspired, according to the
liner notes, by a Sudanese dalib rhythm), or the jumpy traditional
Moroccan sounding “Barud,” where the band’s indigenous rhythms provide a
propulsive foundation for Oostenrijk’s guitar work.
Much of the album
is taken up with the band’s recordings of several jazz classics, smoky and
elegant in themselves, but the constraints of the material foor some make these
tracks suffer in comparison with the ones where they give each other
more room to roar. Beside the Maghreb influences, there is a strong affinity with the Middle East.
Link to the music > https://orcd.co/xya7ork
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