Like many jazz musicians, South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim grew up listening to gospel music. His grandmother played piano in the African Methodist Episcopalian Church. Unlike many ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Born in 1934 in Cape Town, Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to ...

The Jazz Epistles, South Africa’s first black jazz group, took Cape Town by storm in the late 1950’s with their debut record Jazz Epistle Verse 1. Inspired by Art Blakey’s… I’ve seen Abdullah Ibrahim ...

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 ...

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