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Oud Awakening: Nashaz Furthers the Tradition of Blending of Jazz and Arabic Music
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rock paper scissors, inc.
A puzzling and intriguing challenge from an Egyptian cab driver in New Orleans inspires an impulse purchase of an alluring album in a used CD store. The album inspires a search for a difficult to find instrument, which in turn takes a jazz player to a radically different approach. This unlikely turn of events ultimately led jazz guitarist Brian Prunka to switch gears, obsessively learn as much about Arabic music as he possibly can, and begin down two paths: a ...
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Songlines Recordings Will Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary With Guitar/Oud Night At New York's Shapeshifter Lab On June 14
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Cary Goldberg
Triple Bill Will Feature Ben Monder Trio, Brad Shepik Quartet and Gordon Grdina/Mark Helias To help celebrate Songlines Recordings’ 20th anniversary, three string players with deep connections to the label will perform at ShapeShifter Lab on June 14,co-presented by Songlines and Search and Restore. Ben Monder is reviving his original trio with the personnel from its first recording, Flux (Songlines 1995) – Drew Gress on bass and Jim Black on drums. In fact it's this particular formation's first gig anywhere ...
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Inside Silence, New Album by Wahid (Dimitris Mahlis (Oud) and Chris Wabich (Frame Drums) Released
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
WAHID is the duo of Dimitris Mahlis (oud) and Chris Wabich (frame drums). WAHID (meaning “one") is a new union of instruments and music from the East and West. The primary instruments for WAHID are oud and frame drums, each of which has an ancient history, as found on clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. A duo combination of oud and frames has never been explored or codified, even though the two instruments have complimented each other in classical ensembles for ...
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Kora and Oud Explorer Kane Mathis Interviewed at All About Jazz
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John Kelman
Seattle's Kane Mathis is one of the world's leading performers on the kora, the distinctive (usually) 21-stringed West African harp instrument that is the major instrument of the Mandinka people of Mali; the Malian equivalent of the Western keyboard. Mathis has studied the instrument since the age of twenty, making several trips to The Gambia to learn from the hereditary musicians of the area. Now, he is the kora instrumentalist in Seattle's The Kora Band, a five piece jazz group ...
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Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival to Feature for the First Time, the Oriental Fusion Sensation and Oud Unique Player Charbel Rouhana
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Chillout Productions
Charbel Rouhana's remarkable appearance with his all-new fusion project will take place on February 17th, 2010 at the Dubai Media City Amphitheatre Charbel Rouhana is known to be one of the finest Oud players in Lebanon. He pursued his music education to obtain his diploma in Oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A. in musicology in 1987. One of his major achievements is establishing a new methodology in playing the Oud. This method was published and adopted by the National ...
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2008 Jerusalem International Oud Festival
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All About Jazz
The 2008 Jerusalem International Oud Festival continues its longstanding tradition, focusing upon the oud, the “king of Arab musical instruments,” and its journey through different lands and historical periods. The 2008 Oud Festival once more embarks upon this path following the oud and related instruments, both East and West—ranging from the lute, kamanja, saz, and guitar to the cello and the violin. Like previous Festivals, the 2008 Jerusalem International Oud Festival serves as a meeting place between Middle Eastern and ...
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