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Rabih Abou-Khalil

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Rabih Abou-Khalil (ربيع أبو خليل, born August 17, 1957 in Lebanon) is an oud player and composer. [1]

57 relations: Al-Jadida (album), Alexander Bălănescu, Alto saxophone, Anouar Brahem, Arabian Waltz, Arabic music, ARTE Quartett, Balanescu Quartet, Bandleader, Beirut, Blue Camel, Bonn, Charlie Mariano, Chris Karrer, Classical music, Composer, Drum, ECM Records, Em Português, Enja Records, Ethno jazz, Fado, Flugelhorn, Flute, Gabriele Mirabassi, Germany, Glen Moore, Glen Velez, Howard Levy, Jazz, Joachim Kühn, Journey to the Centre of an Egg, Kenny Wheeler, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Luciano Biondini, Mark Nauseef, Michel Godard, Milton Cardona, Morton's Foot, Munich, Ney, Odd Times, Oud, Ramesh Shotham, Sardinia, Serpent (instrument), Setrak Sarkissian, Songs for Sad Women, Sonny Fortune, ..., Steve Swallow, String quartet, Tarab, The Cactus of Knowledge, The Sultan's Picnic, Trouble in Jerusalem, World music. Expand index (7 more) »

Al-Jadida (album)

Al-Jadida is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, fusing traditional Arab music with jazz, which was recorded in 1990 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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Alexander Bălănescu

Alexander Bălănescu (born 11 June 1954) is a Romanian violinist, and founder of the Balanescu Quartet.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.

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Anouar Brahem

Anouar Brahem (in Tunisian Arabic أنور براهم) (born on October 20, 1957) is a Tunisian oud player and composer.

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Arabian Waltz

Arabian Waltz is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, featuring the Balanescu Quartet, which was recorded in 1995 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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Arabic music

Arabic music or Arab music (Arabic: الموسيقى العربية – ALA-LC) is the music of the Arab people.

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ARTE Quartett

The ARTE Quartett was founded in 1995 by the saxophonists Beat Hofstetter, Sascha Armbruster, Andrea Formenti and Beat Kappeler.

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Balanescu Quartet

The Balanescu Quartet is a string quartet founded in 1987 by Alexander Bălănescu that achieved fame through the release of several complex cover versions of songs by German experimental electronic music band Kraftwerk on their album Possessed.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Blue Camel

Blue Camel is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil.

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Bonn

The Federal City of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000.

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Charlie Mariano

Carmine Ugo Mariano (November 12, 1923 – June 16, 2009) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.

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Chris Karrer

Christoph "Chris" Karrer (born 20 January 1947, Kempten, Germany) is a German guitarist and composer.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Em Português

Em Português is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil which was recorded in Germany in 2007 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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Enja Records

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

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Ethno jazz

Ethno Jazz, also known as World Jazz, is a subgenre of jazz and world music, developed internationally in the 1950s and '60s and broadly characterized by a combination of traditional jazz and non-Western musical elements.

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Fado

Fado ("destiny, fate") is a music genre that can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins.

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Flugelhorn

The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Gabriele Mirabassi

Gabriele Mirabassi is an Italian jazz clarinetist.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Glen Moore

Glen Moore (born October 28, 1941 in Portland, Oregon) is a jazz bassist who occasionally performs on piano, flute and violin.

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Glen Velez

Glen Velez (born 1949) is an American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world.

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Howard Levy

Howard Levy (born July 31, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Joachim Kühn

Joachim Kurt Kühn (born 15 March 1944) is a German jazz pianist.

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Journey to the Centre of an Egg

Journey to the Centre of an Egg is an album by the Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil with erman pianist Joachim Kühn and percussionist Jarrod Cagwin which was recorded in Germany in 2004 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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Kenny Wheeler

Kenneth Vincent John Wheeler, OC (14 January 1930 – 18 September 2014) was a Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player, based in the U.K. from the 1950s onwards.

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Lebanese Civil War

The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية – Al-Ḥarb al-Ahliyyah al-Libnāniyyah) was a multifaceted civil war in Lebanon, lasting from 1975 to 1990 and resulting in an estimated 120,000 fatalities.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (لبنان; Lebanese pronunciation:; Liban), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies.

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Luciano Biondini

Luciano Biondini is an Italian jazz and folk music accordion player that has appeared on the albums of various musicians, including Gabriele Mirabassi, Fratelli Mancuso, Ivano Fossati, Samo Salamon and Rabih Abou-Khalil.

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Mark Nauseef

Mark Nauseef (born June 11, 1953), in Cortland, New York, is a drummer and percussionist who has enjoyed a varied career, ranging from rock music during the 1970s with his time as a member of the Ian Gillan Band and, temporarily, Thin Lizzy, to a wide range of musical styles in more recent times, playing with many notable musicians from all over the world.

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Michel Godard

Michel Godard (3 October 1960, Héricourt, near Belfort, France) is a French avant-garde jazz and classical musician.

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Milton Cardona

Milton Cardona (November 21, 1944 – September 19, 2014) was a percussionist, vocalist and conga player from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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Morton's Foot

Morton's Foot is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil which was recorded in Germany in 2003 and released on the Enja label.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Ney

The ney (نی / نای), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music.

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Odd Times

Odd Times is a live album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil which was recorded in Germany in 1997 and released on the Enja label.

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Oud

The oud (عود) is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of instruments) with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Iraqi, Arabian, Jewish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali, and various other forms of Middle Eastern and North African music.

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Ramesh Shotham

Ramesh Shotham (born May 7, 1948 in Madras, South India) is a percussionist and drummer.

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Sardinia

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Serpent (instrument)

The serpent is a bass wind instrument, descended from the cornett, and a distant ancestor of the tuba, with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind.

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Setrak Sarkissian

Setrak Sarkissian ستراك سركسيان (died February 21, 2017) was a Lebanese tabla player of Armenian descent.

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Songs for Sad Women

Songs for Sad Women is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil which was recorded in Germany in 2005 but not released on the Enja label until 2007.

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Sonny Fortune

Sonny Fortune (born) is an American jazz saxphonist.

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Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is a jazz bassist and composer noted for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley.

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String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

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Tarab

Tarab is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, fusing traditional Arab music with jazz, which was recorded in 1992 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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The Cactus of Knowledge

The Cactus of Knowledge is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil which was recorded in Germany in 2000 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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The Sultan's Picnic

The Sultan's Picnic is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, fusing traditional Arab music with jazz, which was recorded in 1994 and released on the Enja label.

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Trouble in Jerusalem

Marktoberdorf, Germany is an album by the Lebanese oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, conceived as a soundtrack to the 1922 German silent film Nathan the Wise, which was recorded in Germany in 2009 and released on the Enja label the following year.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabih_Abou-Khalil

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