Ibrahim, Oum, and why our music has 12 shades of grey

Here\’s Christian McBride for Jazz Night in America about Ibrahim Maalouf:

It\’s much more than the idea of \”quarter tones\” between our normal half ones. Here is composer David Bruce explaining it better than I could:

So there\’s a world way beyond anything we\’re used to – and it\’s beautiful, and full of colours.

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