When Abdullah Ibrahim takes the Berklee Performance Center stage Sunday night, under the auspices of World Music, it will be the first time in years that he’s played locally with his big (seven-piece) ...
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For about four years back in the 1980s, one of the biggest musical attractions of a trip to New York City was the chance to hear South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim’s seven-piece “little big band,” ...
The great Nelson Mandela described Cape Town-born piano legend and 2019 NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim as "South Africa's Mozart." A performer, composer and outspoken chronicler of South Africa's ...
The pianist's name was Dollar Brand. He came out of a nascent South African jazz scene in 1959 with The Jazz Epistles, a group that included trumpeter Hugh Masekela. Though his profile has never ...
The iconic South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, now 81, draws equally from the African Methodist Episcopal Church and township music of his Cape Town boyhood, and American jazz — ...
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Editor’s note: This interview with Ibrahim took place before his Friday show with Ekaya was canceled due to illness. The eminent pianist Abdullah Ibrahim was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1934, ...
The South African musician formed the Jazz Epistles and got a boost from Duke Ellington. Now 84, he is a Jazz Master and still a vital force onstage. By Giovanni Russonello WASHINGTON — Receiving a ...
This is FRESH AIR. Earlier this year, South African composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, once known as Dollar Brand, was enlisted into the ranks of NEA Jazz Masters. He also has a new album out.
WASHINGTON — Receiving a Jazz Master accolade from the National Endowment for the Arts this spring at the Kennedy Center, Abdullah Ibrahim delivered his acceptance speech in under two minutes. The ...
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