{"id":405,"date":"2011-06-29T17:46:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2011\/06\/jazz_in_jordan_yacoub_abu_ghos\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T17:46:29","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:46:29","slug":"jazz_in_jordan_yacoub_abu_ghos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/06\/jazz_in_jordan_yacoub_abu_ghos.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz in Jordan: Yacoub Abu Ghosh explains and plays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz and its evolution goes on everywhere &#8211; as bass guitarist\/bandleader\/composer\/producer Yacoub Abu Ghosh explained and demonstrated to me in Amman, Jordan last March. Ghosh and his Stage Heroes performed at their weekly gig at Canvas Cafe Restaurant Art Lounge. His new album <i>As Blue As The Rivers of Amman<\/i> is due to drop July 2.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98IvO-qwWg0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nT<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe truth of the &#8220;jazz (and beyond) is everywhere&#8221; axiom is what trainees of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyejazz.tv\/\">eyeJAZZ <\/a>video project of the Jazz Journalists Association have been substantiating, too, during the past 20 weeks of webinars and Facebook tutorials. Check out the eyeJAZZ facebook page&nbsp;to see and hear some of what&#8217;s been happening in Athens and Saratoga NY, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, northeast Georgia &nbsp;(thanks, J. Scott Fugate!) &#8212;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"303\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2rNUWAx-O0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>and reports from other spots around the globe, to be posted soon.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email or  RSS<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz and its evolution goes on everywhere &#8211; as bass guitarist\/bandleader\/composer\/producer Yacoub Abu Ghosh explained and demonstrated to me in Amman, Jordan last March. Ghosh and his Stage Heroes performed at their weekly gig at Canvas Cafe Restaurant Art Lounge. His new album As Blue As The Rivers of Amman is due to drop July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1217,1316,1209,1318,1317,20,1218,1213],"class_list":{"0":"post-405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-amman","8":"tag-canvas-cafe-restaurant-art-lounge","9":"tag-eyejazz","10":"tag-j-scott-fugate","11":"tag-jam-sessions","12":"tag-jazz","13":"tag-jordan","14":"tag-yacoub-abu-ghosh","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-6x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":387,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/03\/beyond_jazz_in_and_to_jordan.html","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":0},"title":"Beyond jazz, in and to Jordan","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"March 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Jordan's capitol Amman\u00a0isn't an obvious hot spot for jazz, yet I found interest, knowledge and exciting players during my visit there a couple weeks ago -- from which I'm barely recovered. \u00a0A couple of postings and I hope a video of bass guitarist Yacoub Abu Ghosh's band from its weekly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":365,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/01\/do_you_jazz_yes_eyejazz.html","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":1},"title":"Do you jazz? 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