Just Jazz Presents Ami Taf Ra @ Mr Musichead Gallery

Just Jazz Presents Ami Taf Ra @ Mr Musichead Gallery featuring Ami Taf Ra (vocals), Jamael Dean (piano), Ben Williams (bass), Jonathan Pinson (drums) Ryan Porter (trombone), Rickey Washington (reeds) and Kahill Cummings (percusson) and a very, VERY special guest!???

***** Please Note **** Present picture ID and COVID VACCINATION CARD at the door. Masks required when inside the gallery. ****** No Exceptions *******

Doors open at 7pm. Concert starts at 8pm. There will be a short artist interview prior to the live performance. Bar area will be open on the outdoor patio. Two drinks included with ticket purchase.

***** Special Friday Night Concert Event with Ami Taf Ra ******

Ami Taf Ra (Teema) is a Moroccan-Dutch Fusion/Jazz Musician

EASTWEST ALBUM:

The name of the Album defines the music that she recorded. A fusion of the music in the East and West. She recorded her debut album “EastWest” in Amsterdam with musicians from the Netherlands, Bulgaria,Spain,Slovenia and Turkey. On the album, Teema covered the famous Turkish song ‘Bulbulum Altin Kafeste”in Arabic using a famous poem by the late Palestinian-American poet “Mahmoud Darwish”. She worked together with the famous Syrian Poet Mahmoud Altaweel who is based in Turkey on the song ‘Bitishbah Istanbul”(you look like Istanbul) The world renowned Turkish clarinet musician Hüsnü Şenlendirici contributed on this song. She also covered music by the great French composer and pianist “Erik Satie” using a 500 year old Arabic poem for this song. On the album there are 6 original compositions by Teema and 3 covers. She wrote the songs in Syrian, Egyptian, Moroccan and Iraqi Arabic dialect.

MUSIC BACKGROUND

Teema got in touch with Arabic music when she was 9 yrs old living in Rabat, Morocco for a year. Arabic music was always played at home by her mother. FromArabic singers such as: Um Khaltoum,Warda, Asmahan, just to name a few. Searching for her artistic identity at the beginning in her career. At the age of 14 her mother gave her as a birthday present the album of the legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz. She fell in love with Fairuz but specially with some of her fusion compositions with Jazz.This is when Teema knew thats she doesn't have to choose for one music style. but can combine her both backgrounds, the western music that she grew up with and her link with the Arabic music in the East. Teema enrolled at the Music School of Amsterdam. There, she was a member of the Gospel world choir and member of local bands. At the age of 18, she went to the Hollywood centre of Arabic music in Cairo, Egypt to learn more about the Arabic music. She recorded her first Arabic song (in Egyptian dialect). The song was recorded in the same studio where the Egyptian legend Abdelhalim Hafez recorded some of his songs (studio Sout El Hob). Since then, Teema has been performing in different countries in the world. From Denmark to Turkey, Cairo, Dubai, Lebanon, Jordan, being The Voice of the Nr one radio station in Saudi Arabia in 2015/2016( MBC FM, Panorama FM) to name a few. In the Netherlands, Teema performed at numerous festivals such as: South East Jazz Festival, Haarlem Jazz Festival. She had the privilege of performing with the Dutch Royal Metropole Orchestra at the Royal concert hall (Concertgebouw). This was for a live broadcast on the national Dutch television. with the Dutch Blazers Ensemble. Another great performance was a Tribute to the Middle-East Icon " Fairouz".

PROJECTS

- "Uniting Cultures with Peace as a Message" The Hebrew/ Arabic song "Maktub" was recorded in Amsterdam together with the Israeli singer "Noam Vazana"

"ANNA RF" from Israel Feat TEEMA. singing in Arabic/English and Hebrew. "AJI"is a song about Positivity and Peace. The song is released on ANNA RF 4th Album 'Flight Mode"

* Teema has supported projects that encourages and supports Arabic women in music. She represented the Netherlands at the MWMM (Muslim Women Music Makers), an international campaign to encourage and support Muslim women as Music makers worldwide. This was a European tour with other Muslim female artists

* Teema went to Jordan to give music workshops to Syrian and Palestinian child refugees at UNRWA schools and at the Zaatari village camp in Jordan. She included "Art workshop" for children to paint their message's they would like to share with the children of the world. She got inspired by the strength of the child refugees and wrote the song "SYRIA"

Teema will continue to grow as a musician and hopes to inspire people with her music all around the World.....

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