Ehud Banai agreed to ask Shalom Hanoch, who is among the best Israeli blues players. Shalom agreed, and so we have these two ...

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The Hellenic Five is a funny group. For starters, there are really only four of them. They play a jaunty, sometimes bluesy Greek music; some of the songs are traditional and some are contemporary hits ...

A luthier for the past 30 years, Chris Pantazelos specializes in building and repairing the stringed instruments heard in Greek, Armenian, and Turkish music. Bouzoukis, ouds, mandolins, and santouris ...

A couple years back, Tompkins Square issued an unforgettable box set called To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929, which collected a type of Eastern music that ...

This week's show is divided into two parts. In the first half, we hear tracks to compare three solo plucked instruments -- the oud, the lute, and the guitar. Then we feature three songs by Latin jazz ...