Malcolm Braff: Inside
World Jazz. Born in Rio de Janeiro into a missionary's family, Malcolm Braff spent his early childhood across the ocean in Dakar, Senegal. Over there he fell under the lifelong spell of music and subsequently took up the piano. Still a teenager Braff moved with his parents to French-speaking Switzerland, where he soon built up a reputation as a charismatic pianist-bandleader. This long-player on Enja Records features Braff's brand-new trio along with New York's electric bass champion Reggie Washington and young Austrian drum talent Lukas Koenig. Inside features plenty highlife feel with Braff's touch often evoking thumb piano sounds. This is percussive, hypnotic music full of references to Mother Africa.
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