‘It was really emotional for me’: Ray Agius on his return to jazz
The legendary songwriter recently released the album ‘Supernova’
When pianist and composer Ray Agius received a call from his friend, pianist Dominic Galea, in the summer of 2024, he had no idea what would follow.
Aware of Agius’s fascination with jazz in the 1970s and convinced he must have some original compositions from that time tucked away somewhere at home, Galea contacted him, asking to hear them.
And, after meeting at the songwriter’s home to listen to them, he “fell in love with them”, recalled Agius.
What followed was a whirlwind resurrection of compositions Agius had not thought about for years, because Galea, CEO of the National Agency for the Performing Arts (NAPA), was midway through planning the launch of a new jazz festival, Jazz Assemblea, which debuted that year.
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