Mazen Kerbaj
Mazen Kerbaj (born Beirut, 1975) is a Lebanese jazz and free improvisation trumpeter and comic book artist.
Mazen Kerbaj
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- Name
- Mazen Kerbaj
- Born
- 1975
- Nationality
- Lebanon
- Occupation
- writer · trumpeter · painter · artist · musician
- Fields
- jazz · free jazz
- Languages
- Arabic · French
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mazen Kerbaj • Birth Name — Mazen Kerbaj • Origin — Beirut, Lebanon • Born — 1975 • Website — https: mazenkerbaj.com/
Documentary record
Mazen Kerbaj, a musician, music producer and comics artist, was born on 24 August 1975 in Beirut. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Early life
Early life
Kerbaj was born in Lebanon to artist and poet Laure Ghorayeb and actor Antoine Kerbaj. He grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, and began playing free jazz in local clubs following the reestablishment of cultural life in the 1990s.
Documentary record
Place of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Beirut.
Career
Career
Kerbaj's first public performances took place in 2000. He started his own record label, and toured internationally, playing with musicians such as Michael Zerang, Mats Gustafsson, Guillermo Gregorio, and Fred Lonberg-Holm in Europe and the United States. He also issued his own comics in the 2000s, which are published on a blog. In July 2006, he recorded himself playing live during the 2006 Lebanon War with the sounds of bombs exploding and car sirens wailing. In 2015, he became artist-in-residence at the Berlin collective DAAD.
Identity
Identity
Mazen Kerbaj is recorded as writer, trumpeter, painter, artist and musician.
Mazen Kerbaj in Smeltehytta. The concert was part of Kongsberg Jazzfestival and took place on 07. July 2018 in Kongsberg.
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Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1975
Mazen Kerbaj born.
Discography
• A with Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassine cd-thèque (2003) • Abu Tarek with Franz Hautzinger (Creative Sources, 2004) • Rouba3i5 with Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui & Ingar Zach (Al Maslakh, 2005) • Brt Vrt Zrt Krt (Al Maslakh, 2005) • 3:1 with Birgit Ulher, Sharif Sehnaou (Creative Sources, 2008) • Blue Rain with Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Carlos Santos (Creative Sources, 2014) • Ariha Brass Quartet with Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Carl Ludwig Hübsch (Al Maslakh, 2015) • Funkhaus with Mike Bullock, Andrew Lafkas (Fine Noise & Light, 2017) • East of Where? with Toshimaru Nakamura (Ftarri, 2017) • Sawt Out with Burkhard Beins, Michael Vorfeld (2018)
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3303112: Mazen Kerbaj
Reputable secondary · Wikidata
- “Mazen Kerbaj”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Institutional database
- MusicBrainz artist record for Mazen Kerbaj
Scholarly · MetaBrainz Foundation
Literature
Literature
Literature
VRRRT, Leonardo Music Journal, 2008
Politics of Life as Such, Aesthetic Action, 2024
Scholarly footprint
Literature
Scholarly footprint
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Licensing
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
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- 1.Mazen Kerbaj Expresses the Chaos of War-Torn Lebanon with His Trumpet. Dallas Observer, February 17, 2015.
- 2.The playlist: Middle East and North Africa – Hafida and Mazen Kerbaj . The Guardian, January 14, 2015.
- 3.MAZEN KERBAJ.
- 4.24 Poèmes - Etsy. www.etsy.com.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 10
- Gaza In My Phone, OR Books (2025),
- Learning Deutsch, Headache Comics (2018)
- Beirut Won't Cry, Lebanon's July War: A Visual Diary, Fantagraphics (2017)
- Politique, Actes Sud & Arte Editions (2019)
- L'Abécédaire with Laure Ghorayeb, Headache Comics (2014)
- Lettre à la mère, L'Apocalypse (2013)
- Un An: Journal d'une annee comme les autres, Headache Comics (2012)
- Suffit la bagarre! with Lenia Major, Samir Jeunesse (2012)
- Beyrouth, juillet–août 2006, Association (2007)
- 24 Poèmes - Etsy. www.etsy.com.
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References
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Institutional database
MusicBrainz artist record for Mazen KerbajMetaBrainz Foundation
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Secondary witness
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