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Famoudou is "the best in the business, teaching and playing; workshops include dununs, dance and song," says Nowick Gray on djemberhythms.com

The ud, or oud, is a bit like a lute, sonically. The musical modes are very different from the lute played by guitarist Julian Bream, of course...but the instrument does resemble the lute somewhat. Yurdal Tokcan is my absolute favorite oud player. He's stunningly great! This 11-minute video's from Yurdal's February 2009 concert.

Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band perform incredibly smart, deeply engaging, viscerally exciting Afro Cuban jazz. Jerry plays trumpet & congas.

Finetune's playlist for the tags "Mongo Santamaria" can be played in a pop-out media player. The list is long, and the tunes go on forever. Very nice.

Listen to Chet Baker & Paul Desmond - Autumn Leaves for free: Paul Desmond and Chet Baker playing "Autumn Leaves"" />blip, free streaming mp3, listen to song, permalink, song archive, dj

Milind Date is one of the most versatile musicians from India. Today, he has carved a niche for his excellent abilities of Bansuri - Bamboo Flute playing and composing. Milind is learning with world famous Bansuri virtuoso Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia for

Okay Temiz is an accomplished musician who plays all sorts of percussion instruments that he has either collected or crafted over the years in a style of his own and can skillfully transform even the simplest ryhthms into a whole new set of sounds.

Essay on silk strings in guqin (qin) playing by player/scholar, John Thompson, at www.silkqin.com.

Anna Guo (Guo Min-qing), former professor at the renowned Shanghai Conservatory of Music, has been teaching and playing the yang-qin (guqin, qin) for 30+ years. Solo albums: Collection of Yang-qin Solos (1992), Masterpieces Performed by Yang-qin Masters

I'm working on getting some data on who these musicians are, what country they're from, what dialect of Arabic the singer's using, what mode/scale they're playing in, and what the names of their instruments are.

Check out how the learning and playing of Afrocuban music and drumming is REALLY supposed to happen! Watch these irrpressible KIDS!

Giota Gianna in public. Ekati theater, Athens, November 2007. Plays greek songs with her harmonica and sings. Γιώτα Γιάννα, "Καλλιτέχνης θα πει να μιλάς με σιωπή και ν' ακούν όλοι οι άλλοι" Tags: Γιώτα Γιάννα καλλιτέχνης σιωπή φυσαρμόνικα Giota Gi

"An Anthology of Chinese Traditional and Folk Music A Collection of Music Played on the Guqin Guqin musical heritage in a set of 8 CDs"

"The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated." - Marc Medwin, allaboutjazz.com, August, 2007, USA " ... improvisational genius of the highest order" - Tom Sekowski, The Live Music Report, January 2008, USA

DJing in the Globalismo room. Come hang out. Now playing Sean Jones: No Need For Words ♫♪ #turntablefm http://t.co/Y2fOg15

The middle eastern oboe plays an important role in folk music from China to Morrocco. It's a double reed instrument called mizmar in Egypt, and named zurna in Turkey. In China the Uygur people used the surnai or surnay in their music and in Iran it's known under the name sorna or sornay which means literally "strong flute". The word nay means flute. According to other sources sorna simply means horn. The Nepalese version of the is in a cresent form and looks more like a horn. Another related instrument is the Indian shehnai which contains the same root "nai".