Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Cairo BigBand Society Brings Back Old Jazz Music


Tue 11 Jun 2019 | 12:56 PM
Hana Khaled

Cairo BigBand Society is the first jazz band to be formed in Egypt since the 70s.

They are influenced by top Jazz singers such as, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Quincy Jones as well as Nelson Riddle and Count Basie.

They perform live at Cairo Jazz Club, this one of them performing

"I've Got You Under My Skin" by Frank Sinatra.

https://youtu.be/aweRdQf-Mpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aweRdQf-Mpg

The band is lead by Hesham Galal along with more than 13 super talented musician.

Here is a list of the band members:

Hesham Galal

Mitko

Ali Elhariri

Zafar Azimof

Mark Horton

Michael Luis

Ahmed Abd El Aziz

Mohamed Labib

Julie Clarke

Amr Al Zonfoly

Mina Nashaat

Mohamed Zanaty

Samer George

David Eyres