The age of 40, in America at least, is looked at with fear as the start of middle age. For many, it is a state of limbo; the knee pains say they are not young; however, that black hair says they are ...

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Lebanese-born father Nassim Maalouf and son Ibrahim Maalouf are two unusual trumpet players, who play quarter-tone trumpets to achieve the “notes between the notes”—half-sharps and ...

Ibrahim Maalouf plays a four-valve trumpet — most just have three. The extra valve, attached to the button a trumpeter pushes down, allows the Lebanese musician to play quarter-tones — the notes ...

Ibrahim Maalouf, the Beirut-born, Paris-based quarter-tone jazz trumpet virtuoso, will make his LA debut at Le Lycée Français’s Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz on Thursday, May 21. Son of the great, classical ...

Q34:39Ibrahim Maalouf: Pushing the boundaries of the trumpet, his father’s influence, and how music became a refuge to him When the acclaimed French Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf was a child, his ...

Trumpet player Ibrahim Maalouf has an interesting way of describing himself. “If you call me 100 per cent Arabic, that’s true. But if you call me 100 per cent French, that’s also true,” he says. Born ...

Stage on the lake a first at Swiss festival's 55th edition French-Lebanese plays trumpet, piano at back-to-back shows Montreux Jazz Festival is one-tenth its usual size due to COVID MONTREUX, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ibrahim Maalouf’s latest release, Capacity to Love, balances the political with the personal and fuses acoustic ...