The Ethiocolor dance group performs at Fendika cabaret in Addis Ababa - Copyright AFP May JAMES The Ethiocolor dance group performs at Fendika cabaret in Addis Ababa ...
Most of us don’t think of music as a science. Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian vibraphonist who created the style known as “Ethio-jazz,” says he’s never thought of his invention as anything else. “I’ve ...
His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu Astatke wants to turn the spotlight on the tribal musicians of his beloved ...
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 ...
While most African tribute" bands focus on the legends of yesteryear, Debo's Ethiopia-based collaborators Fendika are young torchbearers in their twenties and early thirties. With a powerful female ...
Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...
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