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Another great set at Newport Jazz Festival! | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Another great set at Newport Jazz Festival! August 18, 2014. Amir ElSaffar returned to Newport Jazz Festival for the second year in a row this time with his quintet featuring John Escreet, Francois Moutin, Dan Weiss, and Ole Mathisen. Check out these great photos. Of the group by Adam Kissick for NPR Music! Photo by Adam Kissick for NPR. This entry was posted in News.
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About | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Music to create an innovative approach to harmony and melody. Described as an imaginative bandleader, expanding the vocabulary of the trumpet and at the same time the modern jazz ensemble, (All About Jazz), ElSaffar is an important voice in an age of cross-cultural music making. His recent Quintet release,. Composed for string quartet, santur, and voice, at the prestigious Aix and Avignon Festiv...
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Two Rivers at Newport Jazz Festival | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Two Rivers at Newport Jazz Festival. April 9, 2014. Check out the video from Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers at Newport Jazz Festival, August 2013:. Downbeat Magazine on the Two Rivers Ensemble at Newport Jazz Festival August 2013 (full article). Listen to the Two Rivers Ensemble performance at Newport Jazz Festival 2013 on NPR Music’s JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. This entry was posted in News.
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Music | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Amir El Saffar Quintet. Amir ElSaffar and Hafez Modirzadeh. Maqams of Baghdad (2005). The Two Rivers Ensemble. The Two Rivers Ensemble. Is a sextet of jazz and Middle Eastern musicians that has made innovative strides in in using the. Rivers Of Sound Large Ensemble. The Amir ElSaffar Quintet. The Amir ElSaffar Quintet. US-based ensemble dedicated to performing the Iraqi. Rivers of Sound World Pr...
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Amir ElSaffar listed in Downbeat’s “80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today”! | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Amir ElSaffar listed in Downbeat’s 80 Coolest Things in Jazz Today! June 3, 2014. Along side the likes of Gerald Clayton, Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding and Ambrose Akinmusire, Amir ElSaffar was listed as one of the coolest artists of the next generation of jazz. Read more in Downbeat. This entry was posted in News. Hyper Amir ElSaffar Italy Tour in Multiple Cities on te%.
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Videos | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers Crisis EPK. Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers at Newport Jazz Festival August 2013 (Part 1). Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers at Newport Jazz Festival August 2013 (Part 2). Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers on NPR Field Recordings. Hijaz Variations, for trumpet and orchestra. Amir ElSaffar Quintet at Saalfelden 2014. Present Music’s Amir ElSaffar and Istathenople Concert 2010.
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Amir ElSaffar Receives MAP Fund Grant for Rivers of Sound | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Amir ElSaffar Receives MAP Fund Grant for Rivers of Sound. April 28, 2014. Rivers of Sound is a 60-minute work composed for an ensemble of 17 instrumentalists and vocalists of diverse musical backgrounds, performing on Arab, Central Asian, South Asian, and Western instruments. Rivers of Sound is an outgrowth of the Two Rivers. Large ensemble and incorporates elements of maqam.
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News | Amir ElSaffar | Jazz Trumpeter | Composer | Iraqi Maqam Singer | Santoor Player
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Hyper Amir ElSaffar Italy Tour in Multiple Cities on te%. May 9, 2016. Hyper Amir ElSaffar Italy Tour. Hyper Amir ElSaffar Italy Tour. Argini e Margini Scalo dei Renaioli, Lungarno G.Galilei. Add to Google Calendar. Rivers of Sound Recap Two Rivers New Release. May 25, 2015. Rivers of Sound World Premiere. March 23, 2015. On Thursday, April 16th. Another great set at Newport Jazz Festival! Amir ...
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Events | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Teaching Residency – Intersections: Jazz and Maqam. Add to Google Calendar. Tour: Dominik Bukowski Quartet Poland Tour. Add to Google Calendar. Add to Google Calendar. Teatr Leśny (Gdańsk Wrzeszcz). Add to Google Calendar. Add to Google Calendar. Add to Google Calendar. Hyde Park Jazz Festival. Add to Google Calendar. Add to Google Calendar. Written In Water Residency. Add to Google Calendar.
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Press | Amir ElSaffar
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Jazz Trumpeter Composer Iraqi Maqam Singer Santoor Player. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. 8220;ElSaffar has been esteemed for a new methodology towards the much-maligned world music genre.[he] is a jazz musician first, introducing his ethnicity (Iraqi) as an integrated part of his aesthetic.” – The New York City Jazz Record. 8230;what ElSaffar is doing on. Is unique in music…from a political and historical vantage point, the task of narrating complex global events through instr...