BEIRUT: Marc Diab fell in love with music at the age of 3, or at least that's when he first remembers really listening. He started playing the piano at 5, and he started taking lessons at 7. His ...

The World Vibration Concert Series for 2009 will open with Arabic music by local physician and musician Bishr Hijazi at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Winchester Cultural Center Theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive.

Who: The Al Andalus Ensemble, a Portland-based, internationally-known, world chamber music ensemble that performs music from around the globe from an Andalusian perspective. What: "Legacies: 711-2011, ...

In 1993, multi-instrumentalists Fain Sanchez Duenas and Vincent Molino from Spain formed Radio Tarifa with singer/songwriter Benjamin Escoriza and released Rumba Argelina, an album that blended ...

The other night I was listening to a Beirut-born, Paris-based quarter-tone trumpeter named Ibrahim Maalouf. He’s the son of the renowned master of the Arabic trumpet, Nassim Maalouf. Most people have ...

His biographer Ian Carr called trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue (Columbia, 1959) "one of the seminal albums, and one of the most enduring classics, of jazz." It was, indeed, a pioneering leap into ...

La Banda Morisca, from Jerez de la Frontera in the heart of Andalusia, performs an intoxicating blend of traditional flamenco with Arab-Andalusian melodies and rock. Composed of remarkable musicians ...

In this FRONTLINE/World exclusive, a San Francisco-based world-music maestro pays homage to his Jewish and Arab musical roots. Check out dj Cheb i Sabbah's playlist of six songs that exemplify the ...

Doha: Katara Cultural Village Foundation hosted on Sunday a musical event organised in partnership with the Embassy of Italy in Doha that celebrated ...

The Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod, which preserves and passes on Andalusian music to future generations, has ...