Victoires du jazz 2019 | Jazzahead 2022 | Womex 2021
"Best flautist of 2024"
Jazz Magazine / Jazz News (FR)
" you know when you hear something and it just takes you away, just something
different about it, which you haven’t heard before and you just want to find
out more, discover more… I got that from Naïssam Jalal. "
Gilles Peterson / BBC 6 (UK)
"Naïssam Jalal is a 21st-century visionary artist, comparable with Yusef Lateef,
Herbie Mann and Rahsaan Roland Kirk who introduced the flute as a
solo jazz instrument. A remarkable artist."
The Guardian (UK)
"Top of the world - 5 star album review of 'Healing Rituals'
Songlines (UK)
Naïssam Jalal has been revealing a personal and vibrant musical universe giving new meaning to the word freedom, both in substance and in form. In a continual search with boundless curiosity, she shines by her virtuous capacity to weave the bonds between different musical cultures and aesthetic fields.
Commitment through and in music, and creation in the service of commitment: these are the guidelines of her many artistic projects that have never ceased to surprise by their originality, their authenticity and their artistic qualities.
Impressionistic repertoire based on Hindustani- and classical Indian music.
Naïssam Jalal: flute, vocals, composition
Samrat Pandit: vocals
Sougata Roy Chawdhury: sarod
Leonardo Montana: piano
Nabankur Bhattacharya: tablas
Flo Comment: tampura
Zaza Desiderio: drums
Bringing together Egyptian, Moroccan and American traditions
Naïssam Jalal: Flute, voice, nay, composition
Clément Petit: Cello
Claude Tchamitchian: Double bass
Zaza Desiderio: Drums
Bringing jazz, classical music and Eastern music closer
WOMEX 2021 - Jazzahead 2022
Naïssam Jalal: flute, nay, vocal, composition
Mehdi Chaïb: tenor & soprano sax, percussions
Karsten Hochapfel: guitar, cello
Damien Varaillon: double bass
Arnaud Dolmen: drums
Oscillates between contemplation and trance, silence and music
Victoires du Jazz 2019
Jazzahead! 2019
Naïssam Jalal: flute, nay, vocal, composition,
Claude Tchamitchian: double bass
Leonardo Montana: piano
About
Born in Paris of Syrian parents, Naïssam Jalal studied at the Higher Institute for Arab Music in Damascus, where she studied the ney flute. Later, she moved to Cairo for a few years and enriched her playing with the greatest masters of classical Arabic music such as the great violinist Abdu Dagher and Fathi Salama, with whom she performed in the most prestigious theatres. She participated in the creation of the El Dor El Awal and Bakash groups. Between musical training and a quest for self, these years of initiation — in the noble sense of the term — formed the foundation of the artist as she has become today.
Back in France, she accompanied the Lebanese rapper Rayess Bek and the Egyptian oud player Hazem Shaheen. In 2009, she unveiled the Noun Ya project, a duet with oud and guitar player Yann Pittard, with whom she toured in France, Syria, Japan, Lebanon and Tunisia, and released the album Aux Résistances.
From rap to contemporary jazz, tango and afrobeat, Naïssam Jalal plays with everyone and avoids all musical categorisation. She has been found alongside the cream of African musicians on the Parisian scene: Cheikh Tidiane Seck, Mamani Keita, Kiala, Brice Wassi, Hilaire Penda, Fatoumata Diawara, Moh and Hervé Samb; or with big names in French and international jazz: Hamid Drake, Michael Blake, Médéric Collignon, Nelson Veras, Hubert Dupont and Mathilde Gross Viddal; in Arab music with Amazigh Kateb, Lena Shamamyan, Macadi Nahhas, Youssef Hbeish, Khaled Aljaramani and Ahmad Alkhatib; and with the Latin American musician and singer Melingo.
She has recorded with Abdoulaye Traore, Mohamed Diaby, Napoleon Maddox, Aziz Sahmaoui, Mike Ladd, Sébastien Giniaux, Aerophone Jazz Trio, and the Palestinian rap group Katibeh 5, and has composed music for two feature films (Karima Zoubir’s Camera Woman and Odile Demonfaucon’s In the hands).
First prize in Jazz category of the International Songwriting competition 2023
Victoire du Jazz 2019 (album Quest of the Invisible)
Grand prix of the Académie Charles Cros 2017
Best flautist of 2021, 2023 and 2024 by Jazz Magazine / Jazz News
Jazzahead! 2022
WOMEX 2021
Jazzahead! 2019
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26 Mar 2025 - Mairie dus XVIIIe arrondissement - Paris (FR) La Nuit du Destin
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12 Apr 2025 - Teatro Grande - Brescia (IT) Healing Rituals
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18 Jul 2025 - Les Nuits de Fourvière - Lyon (FR) Landscapes of Eternity
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23 Jul 2025 - Jazzaldia - San Sebastian (ES) Landscapes of Eternity
26 Jul 2025 - Festival Jazz Dann Port - Le Port (RE) Landscapes of Eternity
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26 Mar 2026 - Philharmonie Luxembourg - Luxembourg-Ville (LU) Landscapes of Eternity
