Yakir Arbib and Conti Bilong
Pizza Express Jazz Club, W1D 3RW , [Venue Details]‘Afro Baroque’ is the new exciting multi-cultural duo collaboration between international award winning pianist and composer Yakir Arbib, and Manu Dibango's Cameroonian virtuoso drummer and vocalist Conti Bilong.
Yakir and Conti will previewing music from their forthcoming album ‘Afro Baroque’ to be released in October 2025.
This concert will be filmed by French TV.
Coming from two of the most unrelated musical backgrounds that you could imagine, the two musicians found an instant connection after meeting for the first time in Paris in July, 2023.
“I was looking for a new drummer for my jazz trio” says Yakir. A friend suggested I take a listen to this incredible drummer Conti Bilong. But as soon as I heard the first notes from a video on Youtube, I immediately realised that here was a musician with such a strong and natural force of rhythm and movement such as I’ve never heard anywhere before.”
As soon as the two met in a small rehearsal room in Paris and started playing “Caravan” by Duke Ellington, something inexplicable happened. An instantaneous musical connection resulting from the alchemy of this unlikely encounter.
The two musicians explore traditional rhythms from central Africa and the Middle East, and fuse them together in a unique musical language amalgamating Baroque style counterpoint and dynamic jazz interplay.
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Admission: £25.00
Performer name: Yakir Arbib, Conti Bilong
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Age restriction: Recommended 7+
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Yakir Arbib and Conti Bilong
Thursday, 18 Sep 2025 @8.00pm
Pizza Express Jazz Club, W1D 3RWMore Information
‘Afro Baroque’ is the new exciting multi-cultural duo collaboration between international award winning pianist and composer Yakir Arbib, and Manu Dibango's Cameroonian virtuoso drummer and vocalist Conti Bilong.
Yakir and Conti will previewing music from their forthcoming album ‘Afro Baroque’ to be released in October 2025.
This concert will be filmed by French TV.
Coming from two of the most unrelated musical backgrounds that you could imagine, the two musicians found an instant connection after meeting for the first time in Paris in July, 2023.
“I was looking for a new drummer for my jazz trio” says Yakir. A friend suggested I take a listen to this incredible drummer Conti Bilong. But as soon as I heard the first notes from a video on Youtube, I immediately realised that here was a musician with such a strong and natural force of rhythm and movement such as I’ve never heard anywhere before.”
As soon as the two met in a small rehearsal room in Paris and started playing “Caravan” by Duke Ellington, something inexplicable happened. An instantaneous musical connection resulting from the alchemy of this unlikely encounter.
The two musicians explore traditional rhythms from central Africa and the Middle East, and fuse them together in a unique musical language amalgamating Baroque style counterpoint and dynamic jazz interplay.
Admission: £25.00
Performer name: Yakir Arbib, Conti Bilong
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Age restriction: Recommended 7+
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