Arabic Jazz Bridges with Iraqi traditional musicians

Medley - Chalabia & C-Jam-Blues & Ashgar Bshama: Saxophonist, Werner Englert Builds Jazz Bridges to Arabia in these performances with the musicians of the Iraq National Folk Dance Company. The ensemble met and rehearsed from July 13 to 23, 2007 in a project organized by American Voices and funded by the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad with additional support from Austrian Airlines and individual donations. More information and photos at http://americanvoices.org/projects/2007/unity/

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Music

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• American
• Voices
• Unity
• Academy
• Iraq
• Jazz
• Bridges
• Werner
• Englert

[americanvoices]

Arabic / Central Asia Flute called the Ney

[universaljustice009]

its actually NAI... its an arabic word... thanks for sharing the vid btw

[americanvoices]

Its often spelled Ney as well.....

[alibarnes]

Excellent what a great infusion

[agathasharon]

i like the experiments

[MissMa2ab]

love it

[DreadCrawler]

exotic



[blkmambalover]

Why is there a Sax in that group???Definitly random.......Makes a good part of it though!!!!!!

[maaleadummim]

@btouri "Bint Al-Shalabiya"

[aminnheydari]

lovely clip , thanks very much , Nay which pronounce ( Ne'Ay) is one of the oldest instruments used in middle east like Iran , Iraq , Azerbaijani.... it is really hard to play it since it does not have a mouthpiece .

[Jetluffyq8]

i wish arabs make more music like this today

[JirayaSennin]

@btouri sounds like the old andalusian folk song "lama bada" to me. :)

[saifeelakda]

How nice it's mind-blowing Arabic music - really touched my soul!!! Please upload some more videos like this... Thanks!

[goenteman]

this belongs to every human - one root, one wibe, one groove, one planet ^^

[TheTofuGod]

beautiful music