Results for "Dhafer Youssef; Amos Hoffman"

Two Sides Of The Oud: Dhafer Youssef & Amos Hoffman

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 26, 2006

Over the last decade the oud, the Middle Eastern lute, has become a beguiling and familiar sound on culturally outward-looking jazz recordings. Tunisian player Anouar Brahem has expanded the vocabulary of the instrument with every new recording, and Lebanese player Rabih Abou-Khalil has presented it as a frontline voice in modern settings. On Divine Shadows, his ...