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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 ...
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.