MALCOLM BRAFF
Genres: Post-Fusion Contemporary, Avant-Garde Jazz, World Fusion, Nu Jazz, Latin Jazz • Brazil

Fifteen years ago everyone on the shores of Lake Geneva already knew who Malcolm Braff was. Legendary players were buzzing all around him: 24 hours of non-stop music in an old Corinthian temple in the middle of Vevey, a concert with a piano hanging from a hot-air balloon... And of course the hair, the aura of a Bengali hermit that could not go unnoticed. In short, Malcolm Braff was instantly recognizable. What he wanted to do at the time was uncertain, he'd play standards, La Javanaise, that would slide into free mode, he'd carefully pick the white keys, the black keys from a mild piano but there was already an imperious style, a playful authority in his posture. One could recognize a a hint of Don Pullen's or Abdullah Ibrahim's Africa, Zulu gospel that disappeared into yet unknown tracks. And, most importantly, ever since he started Malcolm wanted to collaborate, be read more...