Persian Poetry Gets the Blues .
WSJ / EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH
29-Aug-2011

Sitting at a chic wine bar in the Flatiron district, Rana Farhan lounges back in her chair—a cup of hot black tea in her hand on this balmy August day. "It's very hard to take classical Persian poetry and make it sound like Al Green or Billie Holiday," she says in her husky voice. But this has been the Iranian jazz singer's pursuit since 2005, when she stumbled upon an intoxicating and utterly fresh

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