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Article: Interview

Tom Warner: Honoring the Legacy

by Victor L. Schermer
May 6, 2009

Tom Warner recently replaced Mervon Mehta as vice-president of programming for the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, when the latter took the head position at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Among his eclectic musical tastes, the accessible, warm and articulate Warner has a strong interest in jazz.

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News: Event

Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers at Firehouse 12 This Friday May 30

May 27, 2008

On Friday, May 30th, New Haven's Firehouse 12 will present the penultimate event of its 2008 Spring Jazz Series, a two-set performance by Iraqi-American trumpeter/composer Amir ElSaffar and his working group, Two Rivers. This group takes its name from ElSaffar's groundbreaking cross-cultural suite, which was commissioned by Philadelphia's Painted Bride Arts Center and documented on the ...

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Article: Album Review

Amir ElSaffar: Two Rivers

Read "Two Rivers" reviewed by Laurel Gross

by Laurel Gross
January 10, 2008

This exploration of Iraqi, American and Arab sensibilities, rooted in the lands and cultures bordering the Tigris and Euphrates rivers--the two flowing sources of the CD's title--is deeply affecting, musically adventurous and provocative. American-born ElSaffar, a talented New York-based trumpeter/composer, ventured to Iraq six years ago to study the music of his father's ...

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Two Rivers

By Amir ElSaffar

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Menba' (Maqam Bayat) / Jourjina; Hemayoun; Shatt al-Arab (Maqam Hadidi); Flood (Maqam Hijaz Kar); Awj Intro; Khosh Reng (Maqam Awj); Lami Intro; Diaspora (Maqam Lami); Blood and Ink (Maqam Awshar) / Aneen (Maqam Mukhalif); Blues in E Half-Flat.

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Amir ElSaffar: Two Rivers

Read "Two Rivers" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
October 26, 2007

The blues are universal. Nowhere is this more implicit than Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar's Pi Recordings debut Two Rivers. Drawing inspiration from the complex and often bloody history surrounding the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, ElSaffar's multi-layered writing is equally rooted in traditional Arabic classicism and Western concepts of jazz improvisation. A child of the ...