I first heard Tunisian singer and oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef’s music on his 2010 release, Abu Nawas Rhapsody. It spurred me to buy an earlier record, Divine Shadows (2006), on which he works with a ...

Enjoy a set featuring jazz inspired by a Persian mathematician, Omar Khayyam; jazz which blends with Hindustani and Carnatic music; jazz that meets a chamber string quartet; jazz that pays tribute to ...

Tunisian oud master and vocalist Dhafer Youssef has released his tenth studio album, Street of Minarets, out today via Back Beat Edition. Written from the fifty-something Dhafer of today to his ...

The genesis of Digital Prophecy is diaphanously cinematic. With flowing dramatic ardor, “Diaphanes” exudes a strong oud aroma. It’s earthy, simple, relaxed, and suggestively enhanced with dripping and ...

At intermission, between the jubilant global melange assembled by oud player Dhafer Youssef and the dreamscape provided by trumpeter-composer Jon Hassell, the Royce Hall lobby was abuzz with talk ...

“The kind of gig you watched and prayed would never end, charged with such magic that you knew you would be telling people about it in years to come.” —Straight No Chaser Tunisian-born singer and oud ...

When Dhafer Youssef and the three musicians accompanying him finished playing and were getting ready to leave the stage, the hundreds of people at Haifa’s Rappaport Auditorium Sunday burst out in a ...

The oud--the 11-string, fretless, acoustic relative of the lute so central to the culture of the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean--is inextricably tied to tradition, more than 5,000 ...

For two sisters from a family of witches, falling in love is the trickiest spell of all.

Whether you want to call Birds Requiem, the new album from Tunisian oud virtuoso Dhafer Youssef, jazz layered with world music or world music spiced with jazz, is really only a question of emphasis.

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