THE ARAB BLUES at Jack London Revue – Portland, OR

THE ARAB BLUES at Jack London Revue – Portland, OR

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in Portland, OR Happening on Friday, February 21, 2025 at Jack London Revue. Doors open at 8:00 PM.

Egyptian percussionist, DJ, and dancer Karim Nagi is a ubiquitous presence on the Chicago music scene. He performs solo concerts, which include dancing and storytelling; he leads Huzam, a quartet of Arab American musicians who play original compositions in traditional forms; and he plays in the Arab Blues project developed by Rami Gabriel, whos not just a musician but also a professor of psychology at Columbia College. Gabriel switches between electric guitar, oud, and buzuq, while Nagi accompanies on riqq (a small tambourine-like frame drum), tabla (a goblet-shaped hand drum, often called a darbuka in the West), or an unconventional trap kit assembled mainly from traditional instruments (for a bass drum, he sometimes uses a box drum).Like the name says, the Arab Blues seek connections between the Middle Eastern compositional and improvisational canoncalled the turathand the Western traditions of blues and jazz. This isnt an entirely new approach, and in the duos sets you can hear occasional echoes of earlier East-West hybrids, such as Dick Dales surf-rock workout on the Eastern Mediterranean folk song Misirlou or Rabih Abou-Khalils oud fusion classic Blue Camel.The Arab Bluess synthesis is accessible, gritty, and exhilarating, and Nagi is a born performerhe always seems to be having the time of his life onstage. He and Gabriel create a sound thats sometimes graceful, sometimes bracingly noisy, like a Middle Eastern garage band.

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Event Venue - Jack London Revue

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Venue-Date-Time - Jack London Revue-2025-02-21-20:00

 

Date And Time

Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 08:00 PM
 

Venue

Jack London Revue
 

Location

529 SW 4th Ave., Portland, OR 97204
 

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Event Category

Oregon

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