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Salomon Algazi

Discography

Artist Title Label / Number

Algazi, Salomon

Moro yo di amor

Odeon 83061-B

Algazi, Salomon

Nuoce bouena

Odeon 46135

Algazi, Salomon

Nuoce bouena

Odeon 83062-B

Algazi, Salomon

Soufriendo

Odeon 46132

Algazi, Salomon

Soufriendo

Odeon 83061-A

Biography

A prominent (second-generation) cantor and figure in musical circles in Izmir, he was nicknamed Bülbüli Salomon, Salomon the Nightingale. He composed several pieces, including a peşrev each in Husseyni and in Hidjaz. Father to Isaac Algazi, he died in Istanbul in 1930.

Salomon was active for Odeon from 1906-1907, making him among the earliest, if not the earliest, Sephardic recording artist.

Source

Galante, 1985.

Seroussi, 1989.

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