Jazz has become quite the popular music genre in the Middle East, and along with the passion for it came a number of brilliant Arab jazz musicians.
Thanks to big names like Dizzy Gillepsie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and a host of other brilliant and influential Jazz musicians -who travelled to the Middle east to share their love for jazz - people in the region warmed up to those artists and their style of music.
Here are 6 talented Arab jazz musicians whose unique style deserves to be heard today.
1. French-Lebanese composer Toufic Farroukh
2. Lebanese artist Tarek Yamani
3. Tunisian-born musician Dhafer Youssef
4. Iranian artist Tara Tiba
5. Italian-Sudanese artist Amira Kheir
6. Lebanese musician Rabih Abou-Khalil
