MUSIC

Amir ElSaffar

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2022
8:00 PM

Barbès In Person & Live Stream
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

$15 in person; free-$10 live stream
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Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar inflects his jazz with Iraqi maqam — and boy is it arresting.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: In person, you idealy want to be at Reyes Deli & Grocery over the weekend for their barbacoa and goat stew tacos and their tamales. But the regular tacos and tortas available on weekdays are riduculously good themselves. Streaming at home, have a Saz-Arak: rinse a chilled Old Fashioned glass with Arak. Pour 2 oz. Bourbon, 1 oz. St-Germain, and 1/2 oz. lemon juice, with 2 dashes of orange bitters, into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into the rinsed glass. Garnish with an orange twist.