The Journey - EP Lionel Loueke

• 1 Molika (Radio Edit) 03:15
• 2 Gbê 03:50
• 3 Dark Lightning 02:19
• Total Runtime 09:24

Info for The Journey - EP

Die Musiker in diesem Trio lernten sich in den späten 1990er Jahren mit dem aus dem Benin stammende Gitarrist Lionel Loeke während der gemeinsamen Studienzeit am Berklee College of Music kennen: Es sind der Italienisch-Schwedische Bassist Massimo Biolcati und der Ungarische Schlagzeuger Ferenc Nemeth. In den mehr als fünfzehn Jahren, die sie nun schon eine Einheit bilden, hat sich zwischen den Musikern ein blindes Verständnis entwickelt. Loueke ist unter anderem auf Alben von Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Charlie Haden und Gretchen Parlato zu hören, auf den eigenen Blue-Note Alben featurte er Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Angelique Kidjo und Esperanza Spalding.

Lionel Loueke, Gitarre, Gesang
Massimo Biolcati, Bass
Ferenc Nemeth, Schlagzeug

Lionel Loueke
picked up the guitar late at age 17. After his initial to exposure to jazz in Benin, he left to attend the National Institute of Art in Ivory Coast. In 1994 he left Africa to pursue jazz studies at the American School of Modern Music in Paris then came to the U.S. on a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music where he first encountered his future trio mates Massimo Biolcati and Ferenc Nemeth. After graduating Loueke was accepted to the Thelonious Monk Institute where he was able to study with his most significant mentors: Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Terence Blanchard.

Praised by Hancock as “a musical painter,” Loueke combines harmonic complexity, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African folk forms, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own. His Blue Note debut Karibu (2008) featured guest appearances from Hancock and Shorter with his trio and was met with wide acclaim. Mwaliko (2010) offered a series of intimate duets with Angelique Kidjo, Richard Bona, Esperanza Spalding and Marcus Gilmore. Heritage (2012) was co-produced by label mate Robert Glasper and found Loueke exploring a more electric sound with a new trio featuring Derrick Hodge on electric bass and Mark Guiliana on drums.

In addition to albums with his collective trio Gilfema with Biolcati and Nemeth, Loueke has appeared on recordings by Hancock, Blanchard, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Kenny Barron, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and Joe Lovano, as well as contemporaries including Spalding, Gretchen Parlato, Kendrick Scott and others. He has also toured the world with Hancock and is a member of Blue Note’s 75th anniversary all-star band with Glasper, Hodge, Scott, Ambrose Akinmusire and Marcus Strickland.

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