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Title: Egypt Strut
Artist: Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band
Label: Strut Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4062548021639
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2022-01-07
Number of Discs: 1
Vinyl LP pressing. Strut present the definitive edition of the 1973 Egyptian jazz classic, 'Egypt Strut' by Salah Ragab and Cairo Jazz Band. Inspired by a concert in Cairo by Randy Weston in 1967 encouraging Pan-African unity, drummer Ragab, Eduard "Edu" Vizvari, a Czech jazz musician, and Hartmut Geerken of Goethe Institut vowed to create Egypt's first jazz big band. Following the Arab-Israeli war, Ragab became a Major in the Egyptian army and had unparalleled access to the military's 3000 musicians spanning Upper and Lower Egypt, along with a wide range of instruments. Part of the barracks were christened the Jazz House and, following a crash course in jazz history by Geerken, the Cairo Jazz Band was born, playing their first concert at Ewart Memorial Hall at the American University in 1969. Further inspired by Sun Ra & His Arkestra's first visit to Egypt in 1971, Ragab recorded an album for the Egyptian Ministry Of Culture a year later, entitled 'Egyptian Jazz', later released as 'Egypt Strut', a perfect fusion of jazz with Arabic modes with tracks referencing Islamic festivals, Egyptian landmarks and friends and family dear to Ragab.
Tracks:
1.1 RAMADAN IN SPACE TIME
1.2 DAWN
1.3 NEVEEN
2.1 ORIENTAL MOOD
2.2 KLEOPATRA
2.3 MERVAT
Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band: Egypt Strut (Vinyl)
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Artist: Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band
Label: Strut Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4062548021639
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2022-01-07
Number of Discs: 1
Vinyl LP pressing. Strut present the definitive edition of the 1973 Egyptian jazz classic, 'Egypt Strut' by Salah Ragab and Cairo Jazz Band. Inspired by a concert in Cairo by Randy Weston in 1967 encouraging Pan-African unity, drummer Ragab, Eduard "Edu" Vizvari, a Czech jazz musician, and Hartmut Geerken of Goethe Institut vowed to create Egypt's first jazz big band. Following the Arab-Israeli war, Ragab became a Major in the Egyptian army and had unparalleled access to the military's 3000 musicians spanning Upper and Lower Egypt, along with a wide range of instruments. Part of the barracks were christened the Jazz House and, following a crash course in jazz history by Geerken, the Cairo Jazz Band was born, playing their first concert at Ewart Memorial Hall at the American University in 1969. Further inspired by Sun Ra & His Arkestra's first visit to Egypt in 1971, Ragab recorded an album for the Egyptian Ministry Of Culture a year later, entitled 'Egyptian Jazz', later released as 'Egypt Strut', a perfect fusion of jazz with Arabic modes with tracks referencing Islamic festivals, Egyptian landmarks and friends and family dear to Ragab.
Tracks:
1.1 RAMADAN IN SPACE TIME
1.2 DAWN
1.3 NEVEEN
2.1 ORIENTAL MOOD
2.2 KLEOPATRA
2.3 MERVAT
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