On Matane Malit, the Elina Duni Quartet lays expansive instrumentation over traditional Albanian folk melodies. The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Robert Elsie, a German scholar of Albanian literature and folklore, is being buried in Albania in accordance with his wishes. Elsie died Oct. 2 of motor neuron disease in Bonn, ...

He may be in his eighties, but this champion of traditional wind instruments has lost none of his energy, passion and creativity for this fast-fading element of Kosovo Albanian culture. Aged 84, ...

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The spread of formal jazz education has created a new breed of global musician: one who uses improvisation, and other devices associated with jazz, to transform folk and traditional music. The ...