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Amir ElSaffar

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Trumpeter/composer Amir ElSaffar is a classically trained musician who explores both jazz and traditional Iraqi maqam music. Born in Chicago, IL, in 1977 to an Iraqi father and American mother, ElSaffar grew up listening to an eclectic mix of music that ultimately led to his studying classical music at DePaul University. Having developed an avid interest in jazz, ElSaffar competed in and won the 2001 Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition and the 2001 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Improvisation Competition.

Top songs

  1. Mono Esa Tono
  2. Khosh Reng (Maqam Awj)
  3. Hyper Steps
  4. Transformations
  5. Hemayoun
  6. Dhuha
  7. Awj Intro
  8. The Blues in E Half-Flat
  9. Dumuzi's Dream
  10. Flood (Maqam Hijaz Kar)
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  1. March
  2. Menba' (Maqam Bayat) / Jourjina
  3. Reaching Upward
  4. Lami Intro
  5. Ashaa
  6. Diaspora (Maqam Lami)
  7. Venus, the Evening Star
  8. Autumn Comes
  9. Al-Badia
  10. Shatt al-Arab (Maqam Hadidi)
  11. Concentric
  12. Ishtarum
  13. Nid Qablitum
  14. Orientations I-V
  15. Inana's Dance (I, II, III)
  16. Lightning Flash
  17. Love Poem
  18. Lady of Heaven
  19. Infinite Variety
  20. Inana's Dance (IV)
  21. The Third Time
  22. The Great Dictator
  23. 12 Cycles
  24. Blood and Ink (Maqam Awshar) / Aneen (Maqam Mukhalif)
  25. Journey to the Underworld
  26. Medmi (Epilogue)
  27. Taqsim Saba
  28. Embubum - Ishtarum - Pitum
  29. Introduction - From the Ashes
  30. 10:23 AM
  31. Ghazalu
  32. Balad
  33. Quartal
  34. Venus, the Morning Star
  35. Flyover Iraq
  36. Love Poem (Complete)
  37. For the Victims of Genocide
  38. Athar Kurd
  39. Five Phases
  40. Flood
  41. Le Marteau de la Maîtresse
  42. Kosh Reng
  43. Tipping Point
  44. Khosh Reng
  45. Miniature #1
  46. Facet One
  47. Introduction: Copper Refraction
  48. Dignity
  49. Ending Piece
  50. El Sha'ab (The People)
  51. Bird of Prey
  52. Facet Two
  53. Khosh Reng - Maqam Awj
  54. Aneed (Weeping), Continued
  55. Human Tragedy
  56. The 13th of November
  57. El-Sha'ab (the People)
  58. Shatt al-Arab
  59. Facets Three/Four
  60. Shatt-al-Arab (Maqam Hadidi)
  61. Aneen (Weeping), Continued
  62. Facets Seven/Eight
  63. Diaspora
  64. Facets Five/Six
  65. Futuritmi
  66. 7 Quintuplets / Triptych / Bass Solo
  67. Doves Over Zion (Dream of the Beloved) / Duet Interlude
  68. Facet Nine
  69. Post-Idiomatic Blues/Cells A
  70. Facet Ten
  71. Orientations I-V (Alternate Take)
  72. Menba
  73. Iftitah
  74. All Said and Done / Sirens / Reverance
  75. Awj / Ancestral Memory
  76. Le Marteau de la Maîtresse (Alternate Take)
  77. Uganda / Trio Interlude
  78. For the Victims of Genocide (Alternate Take)
  79. Facets Eleven/Twelve
  80. Post- Idiomatic Blues/Cells A
  81. Doves Over Zion (Dream of the Beloved)/Duet Interlude
  82. Awj/Ancestral Memory
  83. Uganda/Trio Interlude
  84. Crisis Suite: Introduction - From the Ashes
  85. Crisis Suite: Taqsim Saba
  86. Crisis Suite: El-Sha'ab (The People)
  87. Jourjina Over Three
  88. This Land is Your Land
  89. Crisis Suite: The Great Dictator
  90. Crisis Suite: Tipping Point

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