Originally from Benin, West Africa, Lionel Loueke has enjoyed a meteoric rise in the jazz world. An innovative jazz guitarist, he utilises electronics, looping, mouth percussion and voice.
The 2010 Melbourne International Jazz Festival gives the creative and the curious an opportunity to enter the minds of the world's greatest jazz masters. In these intimate events, the audience will have the rare opportunity to hear from the festival's headliner modern masters as they discuss and explore their music's technique, composition, improvisation and inspiration.
