WGBH

Abdullah Ibrahim on his new trio, meeting Duke Ellington, and his accidental anthem, "Mannenberg"

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is performing at the Berklee Performance Center on Saturday November 16th, presented by Celebrity Series of Boston. Al Davis and Va Lynda Robinson, hosts of ...
Jazz

Songs of The Fathers A celebration of The Music of Abdullah Ibrahim

Mannenberg; Song for Sathima; The Wild Rose; Hamba Khale; Tone Poem 2: Blue Bolero. This album celebrates the music of a true musical icon, the great South African pianist and composer and 2019 NEA ...
NPR

On his latest album, Abdullah Ibrahim hears the world in many 'different colors'

In today's session, we have a very special guest: one of jazz's great ambassadors and, perhaps, the finest jazz pianist to hail from South Africa. In the '60s, Ibrahim left South Africa due to ...
The Boston Globe

At 90, jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is still finding new ways to engage with music

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my trio,” ...
New York Sun

A Jazz Maestro, Abdullah Ibrahim, Brings His Unique Sounds to Jazz at Lincoln Center

There’s nobody who knows better how to mix disparate, even seemingly inapposite, musical moods and feelings better than Abdullah Ibrahim. In a concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Friday and Saturday, ...