Results for "abdullah ibrahim"

July 2009

by AAJ Staff
July 4, 2009

Smoke Big BandSmokeNew York City June 4, 2009When the Smoke Big Band, under the direction of Bill Mobley, crowded onto the Smoke bandstand for its second set (Jun. 4th), the focus was on music by '80s-era Jazz Messengers alumni: Billy Pierce, Donald Brown and Mulgrew Miller. Mobley is a trumpeter, ...

Booker T. Jones, Abdullah Ibrahim, Neil Cowley, Nils Petter Molvaer, Arve Henriksen & Dave Douglas

by Martin Longley
June 30, 2009

Booker T. JonesJoe's PubJune 10, 2009Booker T. Jones, as in Booker T. & The MGs. The quite intimate Joe's Pub is sold out, not surprisingly. This Hammond B3 organ grinder is here to push his new solo disc, Potato Hole. The album features Memphis man Jones working with The Drive-By ...

Jazz Attuned to the Pace of a Calm, Steady Heartbeat

June 11, 2009

The South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim harbors no fondness for disruption. A calm, steady heartbeat nourishes his music, fulfilling a meditative urge. When he works in a solo setting — as on “Senzo,” a gorgeously recorded album released last year on Sunnyside — the result is usually a flowing experience, proceeding without pause from beginning ...

Solo Septuagenarian/Octogenerian Piano: Abdullah Ibrahim, Ran Blake, Paul Bley & Martial Solal

by Ken Dryden
June 6, 2009

Abdullah Ibrahim Senzo Sunnyside 2008 Ran Blake Driftwoods Tompkins Square 2009 Paul Bley About Time Justin Time 2008 Martial Solal Live at ...

Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo

by Reid Jagger
March 29, 2009

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 track bears a different title, Ibrahim allows the pieces to flow together using creative modulations and segues. On the whole, Senzo further solidifies ...

Marilyn Crispell: Uncompromising Power and Grace

by Lloyd N. Peterson Jr.
March 20, 2009

Her notes crash like waves at sea on a stormy winter's night; they gently float and slowly fall like early morning mist; yet it's the silence--the silence between the notes--which provides the haunting poetic beauty that is the music of pianist Marilyn Crispell.Lloyd Peterson: Is there a decrease in listeners for creative music today?

Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 18, 2009

Any record by Abdullah Ibrahim is always an event to look forward to, often with bated breath as he always turns in something quite breathtaking. Ibrahim has done this with Good News from Africa (Enja, 1973), Water from an Ancient Well (Ekapa/Tiptoe, 1985), the exquisite orchestral work African Suite (Ekapa/Tiptoe, 1998), and several others. The thrilling ...

Banyana

By Abdullah Ibrahim

Label: Tiptoe
Released: 2008

Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 19, 2008

La cultura occidentale ha una formidabile capacità di sintetizzare e stereotipare le forze culturali che provengono dall'esterno, un capacità da un lato foriera di una ricchezza comunicativa straordinaria, dall'altro di una rapidissima neutralizzazione di quelle che possono essere delle energie in qualche modo cetrifughe rispetto alla norma o al grado di esotismo stabilito. Un esempio piuttosto ...

Whoza Mtwana & Cape Town Flower

Featuring the music of Abdullah Ibrahim
Duration: 9:27
October 8, 2008