• artist:
  Mohammad Gomar
• country:
  Iraq
• release year:
  2007
• style(s): Jazz Maqam
• formats:
  • CD (Compact Disc)
• record submitted by:
  Music & Words
• label:
  Papyros
• publisher:
  Music & Words

The leader of the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble is renowned scholar of Iraqi classical music. He is also a versatile musician on the jozza, the fiddle like traditional instrument from Iraq. For this solo album he composed and arranged music based on traditional tunes with The Vogel Quartet, a Dutch jazz ensemble, and Indian tabla player Sandip Bhattacharya. In this case western jazz meets middle eastern music rather then the -usual- other way around.

Links

• Music & Words: the power of traditions