New Traditions in Oud jazz and blues
Concert description:
Dr. Rami Gabriels New traditions in Oud jazz and blues is a thoughtful fusion of Middle Eastern classical music and American traditional jazz, country blues, and ragtime, as stewed up at the crossroads of American musical traditions: Chicago, IL. This project thrives in creating new traditions for the new world by perpetuating beauty from our shared heritage through devotion, technique, and joyful exuberance.
For this concert, the group will feature some of the following regular collaborators:
Miles Jay (Youssou N'Dour, Naseer Shamma, The Nile Project) Bass, Buzuq;
Nick J. Coventry (Gonzalo Bergara, Hot Club of Tucson) Violin and Viola; Ronnie Malley (Lamajamal) Percussion, Oud; Jake Sanders, Beau Sample, Alex Hall (Fat Babies), Joel Paterson.
Bio:
Lebanese-Egyptian oud and guitar player Dr. Rami Gabriel grew up in Toronto, he has been performing and composing original music within and across Arabic and American musical traditions in Chicago for the last decade. Studying with Dr. Scott Marcus (UCSB), Dr. Alfred Gemil (Cairo), Osama Zeadan (Cairo), and Mehmet Bitmez (Istanbul).
Rami has performed at:Disney Hall in Los Angeles, CA; WBEZ Chicago Public Radio; The Chicago World Music Festival; The Green Mill cocktail lounge; The Chicago Cultural Center; The Old Town School of Folk music (Maurer Hall); The International Society for Improvised Music conference (NYC); The Midwinter, Summer and Art in the Barn Midwest Gypsy Swing fests in Madison, WI.
While Ramis repertoire on the Oud, Buzuq, and Riqq is Middle Eastern Classical and the Golden age of Arabic pop music in Egypt and Lebanon, he is equally trained on the electric and acoustic Guitar, performing and recording swing jazz regularly with Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan (http://www.swinggitan.com/), and Joel Paterson. From 2008 2013, Rami was a member of Swing Hakim(album reviewby Chicago Jazz Magazine). Dr. Gabrielis currently a Fellow at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College, where he studies links between Arabic music theory and African Muslim precursors to American blues, while composing original music.
Website: ramigabriel.wordpress.com
Video links:
Oud Blues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-JbakxlQ4
Oud flamenco fusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6OMcEGMJE
Original Raqs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmPDPTMp5cY
Original Blues Arabic fusion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41AsK0SqPmY
