WDR BIG BAND

In Jazz Al’Arab ancient North African music meets the jazz sounds of the WDR Big Band in a collective harmony that breaks through cultural differences and boundaries. A host of different music traditions, rhythms and melodies promise the audience an energising evening full of zeal of vitality.

Voice, drum: Karim Ziad

Voice, percussion: Aziz Sahmaoui, Mehdi Askeur, Rhani Krija

WDR Big Band Köln
Direction and arrangement: Michael Gibbs

Jazz Al’Arab is organised in co-operation by WDR Big Band, the Zollverein Foundation and PACT Zollverein and is part of the programme of the European Broadcasting Union’s Conference on International Integration.