SHARHABIL AHMED - The King Of Sudanese Jazz LPContemporary Sudanese music draws a lot of influences both from Arabic musical as well as subsaharan traditions. []It is rooted in the madeeh (praising the Prophet Mohamed in song). The genre filled out into something quite irreverent in the 1930s and 1940s when haqiba music, the madeeh 's secular successor, caught on. Haqiba, a predominantly vocal art in which the musicians accompanying the lead singer use few instruments, spread like wildfire in the