Malcolm Braff

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Malcolm Braff (born June 10, 1970 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Swiss jazz pianist and game designer .

Live and act

Braff grew up as the son of a missionary in Cape Verde and Senegal . From the age of six he had classical piano lessons. In 1982 he came to Switzerland, where he studied at the music schools of Neuchâtel and Geneva until 1986 . From 1989 to 1991 he studied musicology at the University of Geneva and took lessons from Thierry Lang , Gaspard Glaus , François Lindemann, Franco D'Andrea and Jacques Demierre .

In 1991 he founded his first jazz trio ( Kwartet with Pascal Portner and Marcello Giuliani ), the following year his first album appeared as a band leader. Since 1994 he has appeared regularly as a band member or soloist at the Montreux Jazz Festival . In 1997 he founded the quintet COMBO (with Bänz Oester , Olivier Clerc , Yaya Ouattara , Matthieu Michel ), with whom he recorded the album Together for Blue Note two years later .

Since then he has led several of his own formations: the Trio Braff - Oester - Rohrer , with whom he recorded two albums, the Malcolm Braff Trio (with Alex Blake and Yaya Ouattara), with which he recorded the album Yele , the 3IO Quartet with Patrice Moret and Pascal Portner, the BMG Post Music Trio with Francois Gallix and Francesco Miccolis , the Tentett Malcolm Braff & TNT and Malcolm Braff & Ensemble Contrechamps .

Braff also works in a duo with Samuel Blaser and is a member of the Erik Truffaz & Malcolm Braff Indian Project , Andy Scherrer's Swiss South African Jazz Quintet , the bands of Lisette Spinnler and David Brito, and Yarnick Barman's group Kiku et Veto .

He also develops various board games together with friends. The 2007 game Jamaica , which he developed together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon , was awarded the Essen pen in 2008, was on the recommendation list for Game of the Year 2008 and was nominated for the As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année 2009 .

Discographic notes

Ludography

  • 2006: Animalia (together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon ; published by GameWorks )
  • 2007: Jamaica together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon; published by GameWorks and Asmodée , awarded the Essener Feder 2008, on the recommendation list for Game of the Year 2008, nominated for the As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année 2009.
  • 2008: Helvetiq (together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon; published by Helvetiq and RedCut Sàrl)
  • 2008: Kimaloé (together with Dominique Ehrhard and Sébastien Pauchon; published by GameWorks)
  • 2010: de / le Belgotron (together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon; published by Ars Ludi)
  • 2017: Jamaica: The Crew (together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon; published by Ars Ludi; expansion to Jamaica )
  • 2018: Krobs (together with Bruno Cathala and Sébastien Pauchon; published by GameWorks SàRL)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry (RadioSwissJazz)
  2. ↑ There he interpreted a cover version of the song Sexy MF (1992) written by Prince , according to Michael Rüsenberg , as if it were a song by James Brown. Meeting (jazzcity.de)
  3. ↑ SHIJIN, by Jacques Schwarz Bart / Laurent David / Stephane Galland / Malcolm Braff. Retrieved August 24, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Braff, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss jazz musician and game designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro