Kenz Quintet

The Kenz Quintet explores a Moroccan-French jazz style where melancholic ballads intertwine with chaabi and free jazz. A native of Morocco who grew up there, singer Kenza Taleb expresses her most intimate sorrows and her most exuberant dreams in Darija—a Moroccan dialect—and in French, while blending North African rhythms with the harmonies, melodies, and improvisations characteristic of jazz.