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Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band - Egypt Strut - LP

Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band - Egypt Strut - LP

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Strut present the 1973 Egyptian jazz classic, "Egypt Strut" by Salah Ragab and the Cairo Jazz Band. Inspired by a Randy Weston concert in Cairo in 1967 that promoted pan-African unity, drummer Ragab, Czech jazz musician Eduard "Edu" Vizvari, and Hartmut Geerken of the Goethe Institute decided to form Egypt's first jazz big band.

After the Arab-Israeli War, Ragab became a major in the Egyptian army and had unprecedented access to the military's 3,000 mus …

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