Amir Elsaffar October 22, 2007

Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street
New York City, New York 10003

An Iraqi-American jazz and classical trumpeter, Amir ElSaffar has spent years studying and performing the Iraqi maqam, an endangered musical genre which has been played for centuries in Baghdad coffeehouses, homes and mosques.

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