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New releases from around the world, for at home and the club
by Andy Crowther
Covers and originals from Japan, Hawaii, Brazil, Ethiopia, Finland and more. Into the club and on to the dancefloor in the second hour. Playlist Kyoto Jazz Sextet “Dosojin No Uta" from Dosojin No Uta EP (Lawson Entertainment Japan) 00:00 The Waitiki 7 “China Clipper" from Exotica Reborn (Waitiki International) 06:25 Roger Glenn “Zambo's Mambo" from My Latin Heart (Patois Records) 12:12 Eddie Daniels “Rio Vermelho" from To Milton With Love (Resonance Records) 18:31 Richard D. Johnson “1324 Broadway" ...
Continue ReadingBologna Jazz Festival 2024
by Libero Farnè
Varie sedi Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 Bologna e Ferrara 23 ottobre--17 novembre 2024 Per l'ampiezza della sua durata il Bologna Jazz Festival 2024 potrebbe essere definito un festival fiume, con le caratteristiche più di una rassegna che di un festival concentrato. Per la varietà delle proposte si è qualificato invece come una manifestazione multiforme, forse un po' possibilista; fra Lady Blackbird, Mulatu Astatke, Pat Metheny e Donald Harrison infatti la distanza stilistica è tale da ...
Continue ReadingMulatu Astatke al JazzMi di Milano
by Luca Muchetti
Mulatu Astatke JazzMi Alcatraz Milano 5.11.2017 Primo africano a frequentare la Berklee e a suonare con Duke Ellington, la leggenda dell'etno-jazz etiope Mulatu Astatke era uno dei nomi più attesi del festival JazzMi. La rassegna che da oltre una settimana (e fino al 12 novembre) sta portando alcuni degli artisti più interessanti del jazz planetario su piccoli e grandi palchi di Milano ha puntato su un locale fra i più noti al grande ...
Continue ReadingMulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia
by Ian Patterson
Vibraphonist/composer Mulatu Astatke is the creator of Ethio-jazz and reputedly the first African musician to study at Berklee. Prior to that he had studied music in Wales and London. Whilst in America in the 1960s and early 1970s Astatke absorbed diverse influences and a dense rhythmic mosaic is a key component of this pulsating recording. Afro-Latin, jazz and funk vibes meet traditional Ethiopian roots music, with Astatke leading a stellar band of musicians from Ethiopia, London and Paris.
Continue ReadingMulatu Astatke: Sketches of Ethiopia
by Chris May
Sketches of Ethiopia is, extraordinarily, the first album Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethio-jazz, has recorded with his own band for an international label of influence. It has been a long time coming and it is a corker.Astatke, on vibraphone and keyboards, is accompanied by his regular touring band, Step Ahead, which has at its core A-list British jazz musicians--among them, trumpeter Byron Wallen, drummer Tom Skinner, bassist John Edwards and reed player James Arden. Step Ahead's 12-piece ...
Continue ReadingMulatu Astatke: February 1, 2009
by Chris May
Mulatu AstatkeFebruary 1, 2009Mochilla2010 For the first 40 years of his professional life, composer and vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio-jazz, remained practically unknown outside his own country. That changed in 2005, when his atmosphere-laden recordings were featured extensively on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch-directed movie Broken Flowers. Since then, Astatke (sometimes spelt Astatqe), born in 1943, has become a celebrity in jazz and world music circles, and has even ...
Continue ReadingMulatu Astatke: Mulatu Steps Ahead
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'iter di Mulatu Astatke nel reame della coolness musicale dei nostri giorni prosegue senza sbavature: dalla riscoperta tramite la serie Ethiopiques alla celebrità radical-chic ottenuta con la colonna sonora del film di Jim Jarmush, passando per gli eccellenti dischi con la Either/Orhcestra (Live in Addis e con gli Heliocentrics (Inspiration Information 3, il musicista etiope si trova nella scomoda posizione di dover dribblare i rischi di una “buenavistizzazione" del suo personaggio senza tradire le proprie radici. Ci riesce con eleganza ...
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