Oxana Chi Dance & Art - Wings to Fly 
Live Recording at the Transitions Festival, Berlin, 18.08.2021
Excerpt
Komposition: Layla Zami
Saxophone: Layla Zami
Vibraphone: Julius Heise
Choreography, Dance: Oxana Chi

Oxana Chi - Wings To Fly

Life Bubbles

Improvisation (excerpt)on the topic of exile 
Berlin, 2020
Music by Layla Zami (chalumeau instrument)
Photo by Layla Zami, Nice, France, 2017

Sefirot Sounds

Homesong by Layla Zami (excerpt)
Recorded live at the Poetry Meets series hosted by artist mokeyanju
Oyoun Berlin, 29.01.2023
Featuring Layla Zami (saxophone, poetry), Sean Haefeli (keys), Johnny Julo (bass) and Brian David Sauls (drums)

Homesong (Live)

Layla Zami (saxophone, loops) & Mara Rosenbloom (keys)
Live improvisation  at the Instrumental Underground Jazz Series
Curated by Jeff Pearing
Recorded live at the Mirror Tea House, Brooklyn, NY, 20.02.2022

This song excerpt is inspired by a famous jazz standard you will surely recognize. Zami's expressive saxophone is in dialogue with Mara Rosenbloom's voluminous piano. Transforming a famous jazz love standard into a melancholic love letter to New York City.

Live at the Instrumental Underground Jazz Series

Brief impression from a solo work-in-process, recorded live with one saxophone and a loop pedal.
Created at Abrons Arts Center, 2018 as a Resident Artist with Oxana Chi Dance Art and her AIRspace Grant for Performing Artists (2017-2018).
Dedicated to our dear Ali Rosa-Salas, and her summertime walks on the Brooklyn Bridge...

Waves of Friendship

Live Recording, January 2019 at the West Indies Bar, hotel Batelière, Martinique. 
Layla Zami on the saxophone, with Mario Masse Ensemble 
Special guest vocalist: Joachim des Ormeaux
Excerpt from a Caribbean interpretation of Nathaniel Adderley's Work Song.

Work Song - West Indies Bar Live

Layla Zami (saxophone, loop pedal) & Mara Rosenbloom (piano)
"This Is a Love Song"
Excerpt of a work developed for dancer-choreographer Oxana Chi
Live Recording, New York City, 16.08.2019
Original music composed and improvised by Layla Zami & Mara Rosenbloom. All saxophone sounds played/recorded live on the loop pedal.

Oxana Chi Dance

A Heart is a Smile is a Tear(excerpt)- Layla Zami & Mara Rosenbloom

Layla‘s Lament is Lonnie‘s Lament is Breonna’s Lament is George‘s Lament is Atatiana’s Lament is Tony’s Lament is Alice‘s Lament is John‘s Lament is all our people‘s lament...
When will have a morning without mourning ?
Live-Saxophone Improvisation by Layla Zami
Backing Track by Soulprovider
Original Theme "Lonnie's Lament" composed by John Coltrane & produced by Alice Coltrane

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