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Fuzzy Colors

By Wajdi Cherif

Label: WECH Records
Released: 2009

Album

Jasmine

By Wajdi Cherif

Label: WECH Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Pochade; Jasmine; Falaises; Say Something; Geranium Blues; Saliha's Tribute; Marseille; Phrygian Tounsi.

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Article: Album Review

Words like “progress," “advancement" and “moving forward" are dangerous to use in describing art, yet they pop up all the time in that context. The idea that the history of jazz is one of progress or advancement rather than simply change is very popular, but unwarranted in my view. It would be easy to say that ...

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Phrygian Istikhbar

By Wajdi Cherif

Label: WECH Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Voyage (6:26), El Gasha (4:31), Blurred Vision (5:04), Waiting For Paris (5:29), Phrygian Istikhbar (6:03), Tunis By Night (2:30)

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Wajdi Cherif: Phrygian Istikhbar

Read "Phrygian Istikhbar" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
April 11, 2005

I approached Phrygian Istikhbar with a bit of trepidation, since the signposts of “world music as jazz were very strong. The first track, “Voyage, only reinforced my fears, since the usual elements of world music--scalar rather than melodic improvising, static or oscillating harmony, and strong, repetitive rhythmic patterns--were all present. Cherif uses a ...