Ibrahim Maalouf, First Noel Review

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Ibrahim Maalouf, First Noel Review Ibrahim Maalouf is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, and educator from Beirut that now resides in France. Maalouf is the son of trumpeter Nasime Maalouf and pianist Nada Maalouf, nephew of the writer Amine Maalouf and grandson of journalist, poet, and musicologist Rushdi Maalouf. He is currently the only trumpet player … Read more

Steve Cropper, Fire It Up Review

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Steve Cropper, Fire It Up Review Steve Cropper was born in Dora, Missouri, in 1941 and moved to Memphis at the age of ten. Growing-up in Memphis with school fellow Donald Dunn, he was already playing with the Mar-Keys when Last Night was recorded. Cropper did quite everything at Stax from selling records at the Satellite Record … Read more

Yo-Yo Ma, Six Evolutions – Bach: Cello Suites Review

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Cello master and visionary Yo-Yo Ma has released his third and final recording of the Cello Suites of Johann Sebastian Bach, titled Six Evolutions – Bach: Cello Suites on Sony Classical. Ma’s passion for the music can be heard on each of the thirty-six tracks that span two compact discs. Ma’s rich cello sonority and … Read more

Alam Khan, Immersion Review

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The sarod is a multiple stringed instrument that has a profound and percussive sound that is intimate and enthralling. It is a fretless instrument with sympathetic strings that resonant, the slides between notes known as meend (glissandi), are very important in Indian Classical music and that is one of the many beauties of the sarod’s … Read more

Karen Atkins Review: In My Room

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Can music change the world, well it just might? Especially in the hands of healer Karen Atkins, I say healer because truly after listening to her music, you feel a sense of healing and serenity; and you may not exactly know why until you dig in to the details of the tuning.  Atkins has not … Read more