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The Grand Canyon
by Mark Corroto
Flying over the Grand Canyon on your way to Las Vegas is one way to see that huge gash in the earth, and standing on the banks of the Colorado River is another. From one perspective depth cannot be appreciated, from the other the enormity of it all. Such is the case with modern improvised music. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Amir ElSaffar - Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite
by AAJ Italy Staff
La Pi Recordings ha pubblicato una serie di interessanti incisioni in cui l'avanguardia di matrice afroamericana si confronta con musiche di origine etnica, senza per questo cadere nelle facili trappole del genere world. È un'esigenza nata dalle origini degli autori, musicisti come Rudresh Mahantappa, che ha riscoperto legittimi legami tra musica indiana e improvvisazione jazzistica, o, ...
Radif Suite
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Facet One (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 2:36; 02. Facet Two (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 2:41; 03. Facets Three/Four (Hafez Modirzadeh) -
3:24; 04. Facets Five/Six (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 4:50; 05. Facets Seven/Eight (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 5:44;
06. Facet Nine (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 1:50; 07. Facet Ten (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 5:51;
08. Facets Eleven/Twelve (Hafez Modirzadeh) - 3:57; 09. Introduction: Copper Refraction (Amir ElSaffar) - 2:25;
10. Post-Idiomatic Blues/Cells A (Amir ElSaffar) - 7:35; 11. Doves Over Zion (Dream of the Beloved)/Duet
Interlude (Amir ElSaffar) - 5:21; 12. Uganda/Trio Interlude (Amir ElSaffar) - 4:39; 13. Bird of Prey (Amir ElSaffar) - 3:43;
14. Awj/Ancestral Memory (Amir ElSaffar) - 5:07; 15. 7 Quintuplets/Triptych/Bass Solo(Amir ElSaffar) - 5:22; 16. All Said and
Done/Sirens/Reverance (Amir ElSaffar) - 4:32.
First Dance
Label: Aerep Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Opening Prayer; First Dance; Blues for My Blood Quantum; Naima; Three for Phil McGee;
Closing Prayer.
