Iraqi Jazz Fusions: Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers

Published: Feb. 7, 2009, 6:23 p.m.

Iraqi-American jazz artist Amir ElSaffar leads this cross-cultural quintet in a live concert rendition of Two Rivers, an original multi-movement work inspired by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the current strife in Iraq, and the common ground between American jazz and Iraqi classical music. ElSaffar sets the modes of Arab music to innovative grooves, free ...