Salah Ragab

Salah Eldin Ahmed Ragab (Arabic صلاح الدين أحمد رجب, DMG Salah ad -Din Aḥmad Raǧab; * 1935 † July 3, 2008 in Cairo ) was an Egyptian military musician ( drummer, pianist ), who initiated the dissemination of modern jazz was in his home country.

Life and work

Salah Ragab conducted since the 1960s in the rank of major military music of Egypt. As a jazz fan, he founded in 1968 with a special military musicians orchestra whose musicians learned to play jazz with the assistance of a native of the Gustav Brom Orchestra bassist Edu Vizvári; this Cairo Jazz Band also appeared on public in 1969. Under his leadership, they initially played arrangements by Count Basie, Buck Clayton, Joki friend, Bernd Rabe, Peter Herbolzheimer, Wolfgang Dauner and Albert Mangelsdorff, but soon explored the area of ​​free jazz and played his own compositions. Among other things, this band has performed in 1971 with the Arkestra Sun Ra; part ensemble performed with the Fourmenonly (Herbert Joos, Wilfried Eichhorn, Claus Buehler, Rudolf Theilmann ) in the same year. Ragab also played with embryo and Abdullah Ibrahim (Embryos trip). In 1983, at a later Egypt to the Sun Ra Arkestra stay two of his compositions. Sun Ra Arkestra with he joined as a conga player in 1984 in Greece.

Disco Graphic Note

• Salah Ragab & The Cairo Jazz Band - Egyptian Jazz 1966-1973 (2006)