Listening to this fabulous album:
Ibrahim Maalouf is fantastic, not just on the trumpet but as a composer and bandleader.
And the other guys are fixtures of my library.
I didn’t know Maalouf well, came across him because I was listening to this album with Frank Woeste, and investigated what else Woeste had done and found a lot with Maalouf:
I had originally added the Pocket Rhapsody album to my library as part of browsing the ACT label, hadn’t listened to it a lot, the perennial time shortage. And now I came across it again after reading this article about Justin Brown, who is publishing an album as leader on Friday:
I wanted to see what I had with Brown, Roon showed me a lot of well-known albums with Ambrose Akinmusire:
but also that trio with Woeste.
I love following links.
(Yay Tidal!)