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Saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh tunes up for duets
Saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh has spent the better part of 30 years forging connections among jazz, Persian artistic concepts, and free music. This has resulted in a clutch of albums that ping-pong between gutsy postbop and meditative duets, the latter of which come into focus on his new album, Facets (Pi). Modirzadeh has frequently worked with […]
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Photos: The Hyde Park Jazz Festival
The south side’s own world-class jazz fest played host to dozens of shows and more than a hundred musicians.
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Oak Park native Amir ElSaffar moves beyond cross-cultural hybrids with Rivers of Sound
Oak Park native Amir ElSaffar has built his career pursuing a rigorous curiosity and commitment to art, and one of his greatest accomplishments is his ravishing hybrid of postbop and traditional Iraqi maqam. His recent Two Rivers project succeeded in part because ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American, is devoted to both disciplines: he studied jazz trumpet in […]
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The best of the best at the 2015 World Music Festival
How else can you see legendary Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed and riveting Inuit iconoclast Tanya Tagaq for free?
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Guitarist Jon Lundbom follows his own muse on the new Jeremiah
If you didn’t get to know this idiosyncratic guitarist when he lived in Chicago, now’s as good a time as any to start.
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The modern maqam sound of Salaam
New music from Oak Park native Dena ElSaffar’s Arabic fusion group, which plays Wednesday at the Old Town School
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Best Music School for Graduating Contemporary Jazz Greats
Not everyone on this list graduated, but there’s no disputing the talent and vision of the players.
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Iraqi maqam master Hamid Al-Saadi on a screen near you
Episodes of the new WYCC music show Musicology: Live From the Old Town School of Folk Music are now available on YouTube
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The List: April 15-21, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable shows: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Best Coast, Finntroll, Hot Chip, the Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh Quartet, and more
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Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers projects makes its Chicago debut
Oak Park native Amir ElSaffar gives the Chicago premiere of his Two Rivers suite on Thursday.
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Amir ElSaffar straddles two worlds
Oak Park-bred Amir ElSaffar, who blends jazz and Iraqi maqam, collaborates tonight and tomorrow with Jewish Algerian expat Maurice El Medioni.