His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa's pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu ...
The October issue of Selamta, Ethiopian Airlines’ inflight magazine, featured an exclusive interview with Mulatu Astatke, the ...
Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, the 82-year-old pioneer, who has done much to bring his blend of musical ...
The Ethiopian jazz great will perform at the Howard Theatre on June 23 and 24. Most of us don’t think of music as a science. Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian vibraphonist who created the style known as ...
Music from the “Horn of Africa" will be among the sounds heard at the Jazz & Rib Fest next weekend. The Either/Orchestra, specializing in the music of Ethiopia (with leader Russ Gershon at center, in ...
On Nov. 9, around 200 people packed into the Signet Society for the second annual Ethio-Jazz Soiree, hosted and organized by Harvard’s Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association (EESA). Enlivened ...
Interview - Zena is a London-born duo composed of Kokoroko keyboardist Yohan Kebede and bassist Menelik. Informed by their shared Ethiopian heritage, they mix traditional Ethiopian sounds with an ...
Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, presents a blissful and colourful music weaving modern groove with age-old melodies, and western classical music with Latin and afro funk rhythms.
The music artist Meklit Hadero has lived in the U.S. since she left Ethiopia decades ago. (SOUNDBITE OF MEKLIT HADERO SONG, "LEFEQER ENEGEZA") MEKLIT HADERO: After the Ethiopian Revolution, there were ...
At a hotel in Addis Ababa well-known for hosting jazz greats, thousands of fans lined up on a Saturday night to headbang along with what is still a rarity in Ethiopias diverse music scene -- a rock ...