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MUHA- Eastern European Contemporary Folk band ( UK) www.muha.co.uk Please note- this account has mixed up two bands with the same name, hence the pictures, videos and music may not be representative of the MUHA you are searching for. ( yes, not helpful at all, but Last FM does not allow correct this, not very good service) MUHA with their newly recorded album Reka meaning River offers a new tradition in contemporary Eastern European music, influenced by the multicultural society in the UK, the band is a brilliant live act. Entertaining with their musicianship through a sound stemming from eastern...

Muhal Richard Abrams (Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American free jazz pianist, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist and educator. Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago. By 1946, he enrolled in music classes at Roosevelt University, but "I didn't get too much out of that, because it wasn't what I was hearing in the street". He then decided to study independently: "I've always had a natural ability to study and analyze things. I used that ability, not even knowing what it was (it was just a feeling) and started to read books." The books of...

Turkish Saz master and folk singer (1913-1984). Muharrem Ertaş was born in 1913, in Mid-Anatolia. His ancestors were from Ala Kilise (Aksaray), which was the home of the most known Adbal's (dervish) at the time. His first saz teachers were "Master Bulduk" and "Master Yusuf". As a young boy, he used to wander from one village to another; playing his saz (baglama) in circumstition ceremonies; or performed in conversations held in the chamber of the village. Although he got the recognition as a master of Bozlak*, he also had a rich repertoire of traditional folk songs from mid-Anatolia region. His...

Idris Muhammad (November 13, 1939 - July 29, 2014) was a jazz drummer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana as Leo Morris onbefore changing his name in the 1960s upon his conversion to Islam. He is known for his funky playing style. He has released a number of albums as leader, and has played with a number of jazz legends including Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin, Pharoah Sanders and Grover Washington, Jr. In 2011 he toured internationally with pianist Ahmad Jamal. In 1966, he married Dolores "LaLa" Brooks (former member of the Crystals; she converted to Islam with him and went for...

In the last five years, this reigning "prince" of the underground dance music scene, DJ JIHAD MUHAMMAD has captured the souls of the populace. He has secured a loyal following of energetic house music heads and soulful "garage" purists who march to the beat of his drum. A Newark, NJ native, his "ear" for music developed listening to the latest hits his family members would bring home. "They used to play all the new cuts that were out at the time…Then , they showed me how to dance to them”. Everything from Gladys Knight, Minnie Ripperton, Brick, Jean Carn, Patti...