Paco de Luca - Zyryab (Montreux 2010)

Montreux Jazz Festival (2010) Paco de Lucía (guitar) Antonio Sanchez Palomo (guitar) Antonio Serrano (harmonica, keyboards) Alain Perez (bass) El piraña, Israel Suárez Escobar (percussions) Duquende (vocals) David de Jacoba (vocals) Farru, Antonio Fernandez Montoya (dancer, vocals) Filmed July 8, 2010, Miles Davis Hall. Zyryab —blackbird— nickname given to the Baghdadi-Cordoban Abu Al-Hasan Ali Ibn Nafi who lived between the years of 789 and 857 AD and decisively influenced the development of traditional Arab music on the Iberian peninsula. To him are credited, variously: the invention of the plectrum using the front feathers of an eagle; adding the fifth string to the lute; and the establishment of a music school, which was without precedent. He is traditionally considered to have been the father of the music of Al Andalus, music that brought together the wisdom of that magnificent cultural melting pot.