MUSIC

Amir ElSaffar: Rivers of Sound

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022
7:30 PM

Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
129 West 67th Street, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$25; $15 students
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The excellent trumpeter/composer Amir ElSaffar fuses jazz with Iraqi maqam — and boy does it sound great.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It’s getting warm enough to take some of the peerless takeout-only fried chicken from Charles Pan-Fried Chicken out to the Park to eat.