Amir ElSaffar Explores Microtones in a Unique Setting
Amir ElSaffar’s New Quartet have pulled off the trick of creating something that moves and sounds like jazz, but with a much deeper resonance.
Amir ElSaffar
Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound Reach ‘The Other Shore’
Amir ElSaffar’s The Other Shore is about confronting and moving past musical and cultural barriers. “My idea is to expand ideas of culture,” says ElSaffar.
Amir ElSaffar: Alchemy
Amir ElSaffar uses his Middle Eastern approach to pay reverence to the West when really just one hemisphere would have suited him fine.