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Amir ElSaffar: At Two Rivers' Confluence
by Daniel Lehner
There was a point during Amir ElSaffar's study of Arabic music where he almost didn't come back to jazz. He had gone to Iraq to study maqam, the system of melodic modes in traditional Arabic music, in order to bring some of the concepts into jazz. However, the experience proved to be a deepening one for ...
Jazz Near You Imports GigPress Events for Jazz Musicians
Jazz Near You—the web's leading jazz event aggregator—now imports events uploaded by musicians through GigPress—the WordPress calendar plugin. Musicians including trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, both GigPress users, now see their dates uploaded to Jazz Near You within 24 hours of uploading them to the Greenleaf Music website. If you are a jazz musician ...
Inana
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2011
Track listing: Dumuzi's Dream; Venus, the Evening Star; Inana's Dance (I, II, III); Inana's Dance (IV); Lady of Heaven; Infinite Variety; Journey to the Underworld; Venus, the Morning Star; Al-Badia.
Eyal Hareuveni's Best Releases of 2011
by Eyal Hareuveni
A list that represent only the tip of many excellent releases that I have listened to in 2011. In no particular order... New Releases: Amir ElSaffarInanaPi Another great release by the excellent trumpet player and composer who weaves modal music of the Iraqi ...
Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Ensemble: Inana
by Troy Collins
Born in Chicago to an American mother and Iraqi father, trumpeter Amir ElSaffar put his promising jazz career on hold in 2002 to study traditional Iraqi maqam abroad. His 2007 debut, Two Rivers (Pi Recordings), bore the fruit of his international studies, successfully fusing venerable aspects of the Iraqi classical vocal tradition with advanced improvisation techniques ...
Dance, a Debut, and a Free Concert at Vision Festival 16
Vision Festival begins Friday with a free concert for those who enjoy music alfresco in the public square and may not be able to afford a ticket.This is also a chance for the neighborhood children to get involved. Ras Moshe was one such child back in the 80s when an early counterpart to Vision Festival, Sound ...
It's Trumpet Time with the Festival of New Trumpet at Vision Festival 16
Festival of New Trumpet makes its contribution to Vision Festival 16 and offers a detailed interview with Ted Daniel including this summary below. FONT: What is your relationship to King Oliver's playing? TD: King Oliver's improvisations were blues based, rhythmically intricate and his sound, which he constantly worked on, was highly personal and original. He was ...
Lineage and Vision Festival 16: June 5-11
So much of our experience is increasingly place-less as franchise smiles crafted by human resources consultants greet us daily no matter what the biome or weight of memory. The fast food smile and store floor uniform must ever be the same. Crowd counts displace quality practices with childlike aspirations toward some eternal Superbowl as the only ...
Radif Suite
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Radif-E Kayhan: Facet One;Facet Two; Facets Three/Four; Facets Five/Six; Facets Seven/Eight; Facet Nine; Facet Ten; Facets Eleven/Twelve; Copper Suite:Introduction: Copper Refraction;
Post-Idiomatic Blues/Cells A; Doves Over Zion (Dream of the Beloved)/Duet Interlude;Uganda/Trio Interlude; Bird of Prey;
Awj/Ancestral Memory; Quintuplets/Triptych/Bass Solo; All Said and Done/Sirens/Reverence.
Musical Traditions Of Iraq Converge With Traditions Of Jazz On 10/2 At Painted Bride In Old City
Philadelphia PA—"Jazz on Vine," Philadelphia's longest continuing jazz series, offers jazz enthusiasts from the region a rare opportunity to travel to the outer reaches of jazz as Iraqi-American recording artist Amir ElSaffar returns to the Bride with “Two Rivers." The concert takes place, Saturday, October 2nd at 8pm. Tickets are $25. Crush card holders are entitled ...
