Om Kalsoum - Alf Leila Wa Leila Vinyl LP Ubiquity Records and Merve Erdem

and Merve Erdem

Fast forward to 2017

Mastered and cut at Abbey Road Studios

standards provided the starting base for the long and wonderfully sophisticated improvisations by Lee Konitz and Wayne Marsh

but it sounds as beyond time

Om Kalsoum - Alf Leila Wa Leila Vinyl LP Ubiquity Records and Merve ErdemOm Kalsoum! They call her "The Rose of the Nile," "The Queen of the Nile," "The Daughter of the Nile" or even "The 4th Pyramid of Egypt" since she's known as the greatest Egyptian singer of all times. Om Kalsoum's mythical life story of a poor peasant girl who grew up to become the face of Egypt is a 20th century fairytale. Almost half a decade after her death the power of her music and singing is still moving the hearts of millions of people