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Budapest will host the Chess Olympiad 2024, Uzbekistan will host the Olympiad in 2026, and Abu Dhabi has been selected as the host city for the 47th Chess Olympiad in 2028, triumphing over Genoa with a vote of 96 to 60 during the FIDE Council meeting on December 17th. ....
BEIRUT: Berlin-based jazz pianist Tarek Yamani will release his latest track, “King Matar,” next week. The piece is an homage to virtuoso Lebanese buzuq player Matar Muhammad. Yamani has taken one of Muhammad’s signature riffs and created an improvised melody “engulfed by jazz chords” and driven by a pulsating electronic vibe. Psychedelically intense and occasionally frenetic, the track represents a significant departure for Yamani, who has previously explored the relationships between African-American jazz and Arabic rhythms and melodies. “It’s like nothing I’ve put out before,” admits Yamani, who was born and raised in Beirut and taught himself jazz at the age of 19. “It’s very synth-heavy and is essentially an improvisation over a somewhat fixed groove that begins in G bayati (similar to a minor scale in Western music) and then goes all over the place.” ....