Diagnostic

Ibrahim Maalouf is a jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger. Born in Beirut and now living in France, Maalouf was born into a family of intellectuals and artists. Classically trained, he earned prizes at most of the major classical trumpet competitions in the world. His music blends a wide variety of styles and influences into a heady mix that defies easy categorization. Diagnostic marks the third and final chapter in a musical triptych Maalouf began in 2007 with Diasporas, his first album, and enriched with Diachronism some two years later. Diagnostic is above all Maalouf s most personal work: a kind of original soundtrack in which the trumpeter has staged with remarkable powers of suggestion the affective life of a musician who has always seen his chosen art-form as therapy, with all that such a commitment implies in terms of sincerity and abandon.