Amir ElSaffar has been having a good year. After launching his label, Maqam Records (named after the Middle Eastern musical language that employs a microtonal tuning system), the trumpeter released an album by legendary Iraqi Maqam vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi, and, for the imprint’s second album, ElSaffar teamed up with three other musicians for a stunning new live album that places Maqam in a modern jazz setting.
New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal features ElSaffar, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, saxophonist Ole Mathisen, and pianist Tania Giannouli, performing as part of a mini-residency of two rehearsal days, a concert, and an all-day recording session at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. What ended up on the record is not the studio…
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Undergoing an experience not unlike how Brian Eno came to his own experiments with ambient music, finding himself deaf in one ear and now hearing sound differently before, not to mention suffering auditory hallucinations, Jon DeRosa experimented with making music in an attempt to make sense of these disconcerting experiences. In that creative and therapeutic place 
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An expanded CD reissue of Black Rain’s 
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