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Jazzman revives Iraqi traditions
Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew, mixed with the flow of excited American English.
New York jazz has always been a fusion of black, white and whatever, but the 29-year-old musician Amir ElSaffar is developing a style that is genuinely unique, and also - given his background - dreadfully poignant.
The eclectic audience gathered together at Rose Live Music, were there to hear a musical fusion that combines the centuries-old classical tradition of Iraq - known as the maqam - with the free-flowing spirit of contemporary jazz.
ElSaffar grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and became a talented classical trumpeter.
His Iraqi father had introduced him to the maqam at home, but it was the lure of jazz that first took him away from the world of Bach and Beethoven.
news.bbc.co.uk
New York jazz has always been a fusion of black, white and whatever, but the 29-year-old musician Amir ElSaffar is developing a style that is genuinely unique, and also - given his background - dreadfully poignant.
The eclectic audience gathered together at Rose Live Music, were there to hear a musical fusion that combines the centuries-old classical tradition of Iraq - known as the maqam - with the free-flowing spirit of contemporary jazz.
ElSaffar grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and became a talented classical trumpeter.
His Iraqi father had introduced him to the maqam at home, but it was the lure of jazz that first took him away from the world of Bach and Beethoven.
news.bbc.co.uk