Rez Abassi and Vijay Iyer transform jazz

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San Antonio Current | December 13, 2012
Last Sunday's concert was the brainchild of jazz composer and guitarist Rez Abassi, who brilliantly used the Pakistani Sufi musical form, qawwali, as a palette to color American jazz with subcontinental moods.

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