Tag: Amir ElSaffar

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, November 2013: Amir ElSaffar, Alchemy (Pi) Dave King Trucking Company, Adopted Highway (Sunnyside) Ghost Train Orchestra, Book of Rhapsodies (Accurate) Mike McGinnis + 9, Road*Trip (RKM) Aaron Parks, Arborescence (ECM) Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba, A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America (Advance Dance)

My monthly list of recommended CDs, as published in The New York City Jazz Record, November 2011: The Claudia Quintet + 1, What Is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform) Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi) Joel Frahm Quartet, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live) Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerli, Modern Music (Nonesuch) Ted Rosenthal Trio, Out of This World (Playscape) Tony Malaby’s Novela (Clean Feed)

In the new Philadelphia Weekly: Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers Sat., Oct. 2, 8pm. $25. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914 www.paintedbride.org The new Painted Bride season revs up with Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter whose music in recent years has also emphasized his singing and santoor playing. ElSaffar’s 2007 release Two Rivers was deep stuff: an energized, personal

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