Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western charts

Philanthropist Izzat Majeed's Sachal Orchestra pulls off unlikely musical coupThe rich strains of eastern music have for centuries wafted across the rooftops of old Lahore. But listen today and you might hear something new: jazzy riffs and a bossa nova beat.An ensemble of veteran Pakistani musicians have pulled off an unlikely coup with an innovative jazz album which has topped western charts – prompting comparisons with the Buena Vista Social Club which rediscovered a generation of lost Cuban...

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