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The Calm Spark of South African Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim Persists

Category: Health
Duration: 00:22:40
Publish Date: 2019-08-14 11:00:00
Description:

The South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim (aka "Dollar Brand") has had a notable career, helped early on by Duke Ellington,and  acknowledged later by Nelson Mandela, who called Ibrahim “our Mozart.” In 2019, Abdullah Ibrahim became a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, and he’s recently released a new album, The Balance, (which is his 70th or 71st LP, and that's not including his work as a sideman, which might push the total album credits to over 100!) It's full of "lush horn lines, lilting melodies, and uplifting chord progressions, characteristic of Abdullah's own particular brand of Township Jazz." (Bandcamp) Abdullah Ibrahim performs some solo piano works in-studio. 

Set list

    "Dreamtime" "Nisa"

The Balance by Abdullah Ibrahim

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