Amir ElSaffar – New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal

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Artist: Amir ElSaffar |Label: Maqm Records |Format: LP |Genre: Jazz | LP condition: Mint | Jacket condition: Sealed

Amir ElSaffar
New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal
Maqm Records 2

Amir ElSaffar (b. 1977, USA) is a composer, trumpeter, vocalist, santur player, and modular synthesizer artist whose innovative compositions blend elements of jazz, classical, and traditional Arabic music. His newly established label, Maqm Records, released its first album earlier this year, Maqam Al-Iraq, by legendary vocalist, Hamid Al-Saadi and is now following up with an album of ElSaffars work, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal. Recorded live in Berlin in 2023, the album captures the ineffable magic of ElSaffars first encounter with Greek pianist Tania Giannouli, a star on the European jazz scene, alongside his NYC-based collaborators: acclaimed drummer and bandleader, Tomas Fujiwara, and saxophonist Ole Mathisen, who is also a featured member of ElSaffars Two Rivers and Rivers of Sound orchestra. The quartet merges Arabic maqm with jazz harmony and features microtonal and prepared piano. In addition to the concert itself, the album features alternate takes that were recorded at Pierre Boulez Saal the next day without an audience.

Contains:
The Third Time
Autumn Comes
Orientations 1-V
Le Marteau de la Maitresse
For the Victims of Genocide
Ghazalu
Dignity
10:23 am

NEW SEALED LP