THE INNOVATOR
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Amir ElSaffar and Tania Giannouli. (Photo by Daniel Wetzel - Buyana Jargalsaikhan)
Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, born and raised outside Chicago by his Iraqi immigrant father and American mother, had a great epiphany about 20 years ago at jazz piano pioneer Cecil Taylor’s house.
“It was 5.00 AM and the sun was coming up,” ElSaffar recounts. There was a grand piano in the living room, long-neglected, that Taylor said he could try. “Apparently he didn’t let many people touch his piano.&nbs
Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, born and raised outside Chicago by his Iraqi immigrant father and American mother, had a great epiphany about 20 years ago at jazz piano pioneer Cecil Taylor’s house.
“It was 5.00 AM and the sun was coming up,” ElSaffar recounts. There was a grand piano in the living room, long-neglected, that Taylor said he could try. “Apparently he didn’t let many people touch his piano.&nbs
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