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 ...

On Matane Malit, the singer and her group offers a transfixing balance of old and new, laying expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian... Elina Duni: Love, Lust And Albanian Folk Songs ...

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 ...

Keystone Albanian-born Elina Duni will be honored with the Swiss Jazz Award at this year's Festival Jazz Ascona. On June 28, the artist will give a concert in Ascona before accepting the award. Duni ...

When Albanian singer Elina Duni was studying classical music and jazz in Switzerland, she didn't know any folk songs from her homeland – but after 2004, they became her central inspiration. Duni sings ...

Albanian-born Elina Duni sounds intensely like herself while drawing on a variety of influences, as her impeccable trio back her with diamond-bright sounds It’s sometimes said that jazz vocals are ...

I’ve been listening on quiet evenings to a beguiling new solo album from the Albanian singer-songwriterElina Duni. With its pared-down arrangements, Partiris an intimate and plaintive album filled ...

Elina Duni and her high-calibre jazz band shine on Matanë Malit, her thoughtful debut release on ECM, and on their first U.S. tour in October, 2012. The tour will stop at NYC's DROM (85 Avenue A) on ...

Sometimes a change in musical direction is instigated by life experiences; sometimes it's driven by nothing more than choice. Following two recordings for ECM Records with her Switzerland-based ...

The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who uses improvisation, and other devices associated with jazz, to transform folk and traditional music. The ...

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 ...