Hafez Modirzadeh: Persian Classical Music Meets Bebop and Beyond
Hafez Modirzadeh (Photo Credit: Walter Wagner)
The music on Iranian-American jazz saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh’s new album is the result of a decades-long effort to find ways of meshing Persian and Western musical scales together.
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