Of the Armenian diaspora, Arto Tuncboyaciyan grew up outside Istanbul. His music celebrates Armenian sorrow + loneliness, also in African-American jazz and blues; it's melancholic, joyous, loving, consoling...
Can Blacks Play Klezmer?
Authenticity in American Ethnic Musical Expression
David Borgo
Sonneck Society for American Music Bulletin vol. XXIV no.2
(Summer 1998)