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'''Iranian jazz''' refers to [[jazz]] music composed by [[Iran]]ian musicians, sometimes combined with traditional Iranian elements.

==History==
===Early years===
[[File:Vigen.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Viguen]], Iran's "[[Honorific nicknames in popular music|Sultan]]" of pop and jazz music.<ref name="mass">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0TcLEgR9GkMC |title=Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond |first=Walter |last=Armbrust |publisher=University of California Press |year=2000 |page=70|isbn=9780520219267 }}</ref><ref name="vigen-bbc">{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3218885.stm |title=Iranian pop legend dies at 74 |date=October 27, 2003 |access-date=August 18, 2014 |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC News |last=Saba |first=Sadeq}}</ref><ref name="Vigen Derderian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/26/guardianobituaries.iran |title=Obituary: Vigen Derderian |work=The Guardian |first=Sadeq |last=Saba |date=November 26, 2003 |access-date=March 24, 2013 |location=London}}</ref>]]
Jazz music emerged in Iran along with the development of western influences into [[Iranian pop music|the pop music]]. One of the pioneers of jazz music in Iran was Alfred Lazaryan, a little-known singer and dancer whose first recorded song made a hit on the [[National Iranian Radio and Television|Iranian national radio]].<ref name="alfred">{{cite magazine |title=گفتگوئی با آلفرد لازاریان |trans-title=An Interview with Alfred Lazaryan |magazine=Sepid-o-Siah magazine |location=Tehran, Iran |language=fa |edition=956 |date=February 9, 1972}}</ref> However, Lazaryan soon gave up singing.<ref name="alfred"/> [[Viguen|Viguen Derderian]], a celebrated pop and jazz artist popularly known simply as "Viguen", began his career in the early 1950s.<ref name="Vigen Derderian"/> Viguen's first song, ''Moonlight'', which was released in 1954,<ref name="mass"/> was also an instant hit on the radio,<ref name="Vigen Derderian"/> and is considered to have marked a turning point in Iran's western-influenced music.<ref name="mass"/> Viguen created some of Iran's most memorable songs, including collaborations with [[Delkash]],<ref name="Vigen Derderian"/> and was known as Iran's "[[Honorific nicknames in popular music|Sultan of Jazz]]".<ref name="mass"/><ref name="vigen-bbc"/><ref name="Vigen Derderian"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-19-fo-5537-story.html |title=The King of Persian Pop: Never a Dull Nouruz |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 19, 1992 |first=Jac |last=Zinder}}</ref>

===After the 1979 Revolution===
A music group named ''Ejazz'' performed the first officially sanctioned jazz music concert in post-revolutionary Iran.<ref name="ejazz">{{cite news |url=http://www.musicema.com/node/156092 |work=Musicema |title=اولین کنسرت جز ایرانیزه شده با سبک تلفیقی بعد از انقلاب در ایران |trans-title=The First Iranized Jazz Concert with a Fusion Style After the Revolution in Iran |language=fa |date=November 8, 2010}}</ref> They produced [[jazz fusion]], incorporating elements from the indigenous classical music.<ref name="ejazz"/>

[[Rana Farhan]], an Iranian jazz and blues singer living in New York,<ref name="curiel">{{cite news |url=http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2013/09/24/rana_farhan_sings_the_persian_blues |title=Rana Farhan Sings the 'Persian Blues' |last=Curiel |first=Jonathan |date=September 24, 2013 |work=KQED Arts |access-date=March 7, 2015}}</ref> combines classical [[Persian literature|Persian poetry]] with modern jazz and blues.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903639404576516552257206550 |title=Persian Poetry Gets the Blues |last=Smith |first=Emily Esfahani |date=August 30, 2011 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=April 5, 2018}}</ref> She has established a model to the jazz fusion project that she continues to incorporate in her work. Her best-known work, ''Drunk With Love'', is based on a poem by prominent 13th-century Persian poet [[Rumi]].<ref name="curiel"/>

Bomrani, one of the first [[country blues]] bands in post-revolutionary Iran, was founded in 2008, as part of a new wave of influences onto the music stages of Tehran.<ref name="rtrs">{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-music-idUSKCN0IX22620141113 |title=Iranian blues and jazz bands find fans in Tehran |date=November 13, 2014 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> Pallett, a similarly successful band that was formed in 2009,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/60586/pallett-releases-endless-ending |title=Pallett Releases 'Endless Ending' |work=Financial Tribune |date=March 1, 2017}}</ref> composes jazz fusion of [[clarinet]], [[cello]], and [[double bass]].<ref name="rtrs"/> They have garnered a huge following in Iran, and have also performed abroad.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-26/iranians-love-their-klezmer |title=Iranians love their klezmer |work=Public Radio International |date=February 26, 2016}}</ref>

==Samples==
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==See also==
*[[Music of Iran]]

==References==
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