{"product_id":"leila-olivesi-african-rhapsody-cd","title":"Leila Olivesi - African Rhapsody (CD)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLeïla Olivesi's African Rhapsody: a luminous, prize-winning journey through jazz, poetry and plural identities, with an all-star French octet.\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003cp\u003ePianist, composer and conductor Leïla Olivesi stands as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary French jazz. Double winner of the Best of Jazz 2025 awards -- Best Musician and Best Conductor of the Year by JazzMagazine and JazzNews -- and laureate of the prestigious Django Reinhardt Prize from the Académie du Jazz, she arrives with her seventh album African Rhapsody, a work of rare ambition and singular beauty.\u003cbr\u003eRooted in the plural identity of its creator -- Mauritanian and Corsican by heritage, Parisian by practice, cosmopolitan by instinct -- African Rhapsody is a musical journey that moves from the ancient library of Chinguetti to the streets of New York, from the maquis of the Mediterranean to the depths of the African continent. It is not nostalgia, nor exoticism. It is something altogether more honest: a composer reckoning with her own geography, and transforming it into sound.\u003cbr\u003eHer hand-picked Octet brings together the finest musicians of their generation: Quentin Ghomari on trumpet, the incandescent Baptiste Herbin on alto saxophone and Manu Codjia on guitar. Together they navigate Olivesi's richly layered writing with the fluency of long-time collaborators, balancing collective momentum with luminous solo voices. The music breathes, surges, and dances -- latin grooves coiling around jazz harmonies, orchestral colour opening into joyful, full-throated swing.\u003cbr\u003eThe extraordinary Camille Bertault and the choir Poetic Birds lend their voices to a suite drawing on some of the greatest poetry from the African literary tradition: Léopold Sédar Senghor, David Diop, and Djamila Olivesi. Words and music intertwine here with natural grace, neither illustrating nor competing, but genuinely co-existing.\u003cbr\u003eAwarded the CHOC by JazzMagazine and INDISPENSABLE by JazzNews, and nominated for Best Album of the Year by the Académie du Jazz, African Rhapsody is a record that earns every one of its accolades. This is jazz at its most generous, most rigorous, and most alive.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e        \u003cli\u003eAfrican Rhapsody\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eCorsica\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eWayne Left Town\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eBlue Chinguetti\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eLittle African Flower\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eJoy\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eAurore\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eAfro Queen Poetic Birds Suite \u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eLes Nuits\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eUn jour, le Silence\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eNew york\u003c\/li\u003e          \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ch2\u003eAdditional Details\u003c\/h2\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Attention Fragile\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRun Time:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30 mins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0       \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 06\/05\/26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3521383499399\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"LAUTRE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48676202905849,"sku":"AD9939C","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/4889\/files\/AD9939C.jpg?v=1784310969","url":"https:\/\/mvdshop.com\/products\/leila-olivesi-african-rhapsody-cd","provider":"MVD Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}