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) ...
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 ...
The reissued album features the sound of the South African musician once known as Dollar Brand. Critic Kevin Whitehead says: "When Abdullah got a-rumbling, his piano was like a force of nature." This ...
More than six decades into a trail-blazing career in music, and recently named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, Abdullah Ibrahim shows no signs of slowing down. The legendary jazz ...
Born in 1934 in Cape Town, Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to a melting pot of cultural influences: African Khoi-san songs, Christian hymns, gospel tunes, and spirituals, as well as ...
Abdullah Ibrahim once told a seminar at his M7 Academy in Cape Town, "The devil lives on the stage. This is where the ego comes out." On the strength of Solotude, recorded live on his eighty-sixth ...
Now entering his eighth decade, Abdullah Ibrahim has long ago established himself as a true master of jazz—whether in New York, London, Cape Town, or beyond. The pianist has accomplished two very ...
On the solo piano Senzo, South African-born pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is heard in fine form on 21 compositions, with Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood" the only standard in the bunch. Though each ...
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, ...
Abdullah Ibrahim's discography goes back sixty years, and although there are longer periods between his releases than there used to be, Ibrahim has retained all his grit and jubilance. The pianist and ...
Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett are widely thought to have represented ECM Records' initial solo piano forays with Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1 & 2 (1971/1972) and Facing You (1972), respectively, but a ...
This is FRESH AIR. South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim was known early in his career as Dollar Brand. He left South Africa in 1962 for Europe, where Duke Ellington heard and recorded ...
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