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From the 1950s in Smyrna and Istanbul and working class/poor Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki, to it's 1922 spread on the Greek mainland, to its height between WWI and WWII...

Sharhabeel launched a new genre of Sudanese song, melding jazz vocals with a big band sound, and Sharhabeel and his band became Khartoum's most sought after ensemble. It was a popularity that mushroomed. His synthesiser-driven renditions of traditional songs brought further success and recognition. "It is ironic," he muses, "that in the 21st century, there is not a single recording studio in Sudan," in contrast to the exuberance & optimisim of the 1950s, after Sudan's 1956 independence from Britain. The pentatonic scale of Sudanese music contrasts sharply with the septatonic scale of Arabic music.

José Monje Cruz, the driving force behind new trends in flamenco, died of lung cancer at 41.

Cameron's voice had everything that is gypsy and this is evident in his early work with Paco de Lucía where his voice is a shattering cry, a gypsy echo without limits and unreachable depth.