THIS WEEK's BIRDS: Egyptian composer, conductor, old player, etc. Mohammed Abdel Wahab; Lebanese out player/vocalist Fayssal Al Massri; vintage Gulf Pop from young Rabeh Sager; Avreeayl Ra w/ trio live in Chicago; improvisation from Kaze w. vocalist Koichi Makigami; new piano trio from Myra Milford; vocalist Jeong Lim Yang; George Schuller's Circle Wide; Pakistani raga from Ustad Bade GHulam Ali Khan; Raza Ali Khan & Ustad Munawar Ali Khanand reprise & salute Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan; tappa performed live in Benares by Purnima Chaudhuri w. Ramesh Misra & Subhajyoti Guha; recent compositional post-bop from Yuriy Seredin w. Igor Osypov, Nasheet Waits, Ben van Gelder, Igor Spallati & Bogdan Gumenyuk; Algerian cha'abi favorite Dahmane el Harrache; Austro-Turkish jazz fusion from Gülistan; Greek vocalist Oula Baba; early Tuareg guitar/synth pop from Abdallah Ag Oumbadougou; and of course, ever, lots of mumbling and so much, much more.

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