French-Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, one of the most distinguished instrumentalists in the global music scene and an NPR Tiny Desk concert alum, has landed international praise for his avant-garde genre mixing. Guitar duo Hermanos Gutierrez, who have also appeared on NPR's Tiny Desk, use their complex arrangements to take their listeners on a time-traveling journey. Also featuring a set by this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner Little Moon, a Utah band that mixes folk, pop, and indie rock. About the Artists With 15 studio albums released, Ibrahim Maalouf went from prizewinner of the greatest international classical trumpet competitions around the world to becoming the most popular jazzman of the French musical scene. Selling out the Volkswagen Arena in Istanbul, the Lincoln Jazz Center in New York City, as well as the Kennedy Center in Washington, he became, in 2016, the first jazzman in history to have sold out the largest concert venue in France, the AccorArena of Paris Bercy. Scouted by living legend Quincy Jones, and described by the New York Times as a "virtuoso," Ibrahim has worked over the years with Wynton Marsalis, Angelique Kidjo, Melody Gardot, the Kronos Quartet, Trilok Gurtu, Josh Groban, Marcus Miller, Salif Keita, and many more. In 2021, he made an appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert alongside Jon Batiste, who presented him as a "living legend of jazz." Hermanos Gutierrez, made up of two brothers, Estevan Gutierrez and Alejandro Gutierrez, perform music that evokes expansive plains and rough wildernesses, spaghetti westerns and Morricone soundtracks. With their guitars they travel through landscapes haunted by vaqueros, cancioneros, wanderers, fugitives, lovers, family--and whatever ghosts their listeners bring to the music. Led by singer-songwriter Emma Hardyman's soaring vocals and intricate arrangements, Little Moon is a Utah band that mixes folk, pop, and indie rock. The group's powerful Tiny Desk Contest winning entry, Wonder Eye, is about how "accepting the mysterious, shadowy nature of death can deepen one's sense of humanity and soften the ways we see ourselves and each other."
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