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Amir Elsaffar and the Two Rivers Ensemble at Kimmel Cultural Campus
Courtesy of | Posted on April 6, 2015
Where
Kimmel Cultural Campus
300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215-893-1999
When
Sat, April 18, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
The Two Rivers Ensemble is a sextet of jazz and Middle Eastern musicians that started 8 years ago and features drummer Nasheet Waits, bassist Carlo DeRosa, Tareq Abboushi on buzuq (long-necked lute), multi-instrumentalist and virtuoso Zafer Tawil, and tenor saxophonist Ole Mathisen. The project draws on the maqam modal system to transform the jazz idiom and is deeply rooted in musical forms of Iraq and nearby regions yet the resultant sound is distinct from other contemporary cross-cultural musical fusions. The group has released two critically-acclaimed albums on Pi Recordings, Inana (2011) and Two Rivers (2007)...