Jamil Bachir or Bashir (; b.
Mosul
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,
Iraq
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, 1920; d.
London
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, September 24, 1977) was an Iraqi musician and expert
oud
The oud ( ; , ) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have ...
player. The
Iraqi Music Institute was opened in 1936, under administration of
Hanna Petros
Hanna Petros (, ), was an Iraqi Assyrian composer and a scholar. He wrote numerous books and treatises on oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody. He also established a renowned conservatory in Baghdad.
Life
Hanna Petros was an ethni ...
(1896–1958), then in 1937 Sherif Muheddin Haydar and other professors joined the faculty of the Institute; Jamil Bashir was enrolled to learn oud with
Sherif Muheddin Haydar and
violin
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with
Sando Albu
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. He finished his oud studies in 1943 and his violin study in 1946, and then worked at the Institute as an oud and violin teacher. He also wrote a two-volume oud method. Jamil Bashir was also a good singer, but he did not continue singing as he preferred the oud. He died in London on 24 September 1977.
Personal life
Born in Mosul to an ethnic
Assyrian Christian
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family, his father was a singer and a well-known oud player who started to teach him the oud when he was around six years old. Jamil Bashir was the brother of oud player
Munir Bashir
Munir Bashir (; ; 1930 – September 28, 1997) was an Iraqi-Assyrian oudist. Bashir is considered one of the foremost virtuosos of the Arabic oud, and is widely renowned as one of the most important figures in 20th century Middle Eastern music. ...
.
See also
*
Omar Bashir
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Munir Bashir
Munir Bashir (; ; 1930 – September 28, 1997) was an Iraqi-Assyrian oudist. Bashir is considered one of the foremost virtuosos of the Arabic oud, and is widely renowned as one of the most important figures in 20th century Middle Eastern music. ...
References
Rare Recordings of Jamil Bashir
1921 births
1977 deaths
People from Mosul
Iraqi oud players
Iraqi Assyrian people
20th-century Iraqi male singers
Iraqi expatriates in the United Kingdom
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