One of the best progressive rock/ jazz fusion albums I've ever heard is by Al Basim, an Iraqi guitarist who, in 1979-80 went to study in the USA and made the album, 'Revival'. It's fantastic! You can get it direct from Mr Al Bassim, who now lives in France and continues to play guitar most beautifully. He should be at WOMAD and all the rock festivals - why isn't he? I note that on some websites, it says that Al Basim was Iranian and that he was hanged for playing on this album with Jewish musicians in the US - this is absolutely NOT true - in fact, he is Iraqi and I've communicated with him by e-mail over the past couple of years. Al Basim is a genius!
You will need to enable javascript to generate a trackback link