Mazen Kerbaj (born Beirut, 1975) is a Lebanese jazz and free improvisation trumpeter and comic book artist.
Mazen Kerbaj | |
---|---|
![]() Mazen Kerbaj, 2010 | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Mazen Kerbaj |
Born | 1975 |
Origin | Beirut, Lebanon |
Kerbaj 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.[1] His first public performances took place in 2000, 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.[2]
In 2015, he became artist-in-residence at the Berlin collective DAAD.