As a cultural phenomenon, jazz flourished in the United States and quickly spread around the world. As it traveled, the tradition changed, incorporating local influences into its sound. The Elina Duni ...

On Matane Malit, the Elina Duni Quartet lays expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian folk melodies. The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A conventional jazz line-up of piano, double bass and drums sits behind the Albanian-born singer Elina Duni, but the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I remember, as a young music-lover, coveting LPs of the Beaux Arts Trio playing Haydn piano trios (they gradually completed all 43). I ...

Vocal / Balkan folk-jazz. Elina Duni is a young singer prettily en vogue on nowadays Swiss jazz scene. Being a second generation Swiss citizen with Albanian roots it is only natural for her to merge ...

There was a time when jazz musicians were commonly recruited to play on pop records, because their purview was so broad that they could mold themselves into any context. Elina Duni's music may not be ...

“Erë Pranverore,” the jazziest number on Duni’s elegant new ECM tribute to the music of her Albanian homeland, was once banned by the nation’s communist government after its first and only performance ...

Born into an artistic family in Tirana, Albania, in 1981, Elina Duni made her first steps on the stage as a singer aged five, singing for National Radio and Television. In 1992, after the fall of the ...