(The Christian Science Monitor) In an antique stall near al-Mutanabbi Street, the shop owner wipes the dust off a brittle black disc, winds up a gramophone, and plays the multilayered melodies and ...

Amir ElSaffar introduced the final song of his set in the Wexner Center’s concert in the Lincoln Theatre last night, cautioning that it wouldn’t be easy, as its key signature was full of half-flats ...

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. -- Amir ElSaffar has made a living out of weaving together a variety of musical traditions. He grew up in Chicago listening to the blues, trained to be a classical trumpeter, ...

Last Friday saw the release of Yoni Battat’s debut solo album Fragments. It’s a collection of Iraqi-Jewish-inspired original music and an ode to some traditional classics. Even before this album, Yoni ...

NEW HAVEN -- Traditional Iraqi music and American Jazz music might seem two distinctly different styles of music with an impassable culture gulf in between. Amir ElSaffar, however, has blended the two ...

Virginia Tech hosted “Sounds of Desire” on Saturday, a one-woman show accompanied with traditional Iraqi music. The performance, which started touring in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003, depicts the lives ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – West Lafayette’s acclaimed internationally flavored street festival returns with music, cuisine, culture, crafts, and pop-up performances from around the world. The main stage ...

Amir ElSaffar didn’t want to leave Baghdad when the war started. The Oak Park native, a jazz trumpeter who was 25 in 2002, had been there studying the urban classical music maqam, but he was getting ...

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