73-year-old ethio-jazz legend returns to AB!
The very first jazz album was released 100 years ago: The Original Dixieland Jass Band with ‘Livery Stable Blues’. That’s why AB will be paying extra attention to jazz for a year. From contemporary classics to musical troublemakers who are inspired by jazz, to the latest incredibly headstrong jazz generation from local soil.
What Fela Kuti was to afrobeat, Bob Marley was to reggae and The Beatles were to modern pop music, that is what Mulatu Astatke is to ethio-jazz. You can call his music a unique blend of pop, modern jazz, traditional Ethiopian music, Latin rhythms, Caribbean reggae and – we’re almost there – uplifting Afro-funk. Astatke is pianist, organist, vibraphonist, percussionist as well as composer and arranger and was, at the time, the first African student to graduate from the famous Berklee College of Music. Amongst others, he has worked with one of the greatest American composers, and jazz legend, Duke Ellington.
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