Rabih Abou-Khalil / Joachim Kuhn / Jarrod Cagwin

Rabih Abou-Khalil / Joachim Kuhn / Jarrod Cagwin: Journey to the Centre of an Egg

by John Kelman
February 3, 2006

In the realm of instruments from off the beaten path in jazz, the oud remains one of the most intriguing. On a series of ECM albums, Anouar Brahem has experimented with the eleven-string lute in a variety of settings, but he tends to fashion close ties with his Tunisian cultural aesthetic. Lebanese oudist Rabih Abou-Khalil has been more adventurous, with a series of albums ranging from the solo Il Sospiro (Enja, 2002) to the unorthodox Cactus of Knowledge (Enja, 2001) ...