Abdullah Ibrahim – Jabula
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Jabula is a track by South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim (AKA Dollar Brand) who released in 2019 his first album in five years: The Balance. Entitled ‘The Balance’, this project featured his long-time septet Ekaya, a line-up that he’s been recording with since 1983. In this case, the album was recorded over the course […] …
Cobhams Asuquo – The Traffic Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnumkGTc9k
Lagos is well known for infamous traffic jams, called "Go Slow".
Here's a humoristic ballad in Pidgin English...
“Dear Lord, dear Lord, deliver man.”
From the vault: Coldplay’s Peponi (Paradise)
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Coldplay’s Paradise (Peponi in Swahili) covered “African Style” by The Piano Guys featuring guest artist Alex Boye on vocals in 2012. He sings the tune in 4 different languages: Swahili, English, Yoruba (his mother’s native language) and Alex’s own “African scat”.
Ray Lema Quintet – Live
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Ray Lema Quintet live on stage at Africolor Festival in october 2012.
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Blue Note Africa
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In 2022, the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records and UMG Africa launched a new brand to promote African Jazz outside of the continent.
The first release, in January 2023, was an album by South African pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini “In The Spirit Of Ntu.” […]
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (RIP)
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Since the 80s, Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (born in Addis Ababa in 1923) had been living quietly in a small cell of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem (the Debre Genet or “Sanctuary of Paradise” monastery on Ethiopia Street), between God and her piano, after a life shaped by exile, both political and self imposed. […]
Nobuhle Ashanti – Bait For Steps Forward
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Nobuhle Ashanti is a pianist, composer, and recording artist from Cape Town, South Africa. Her debut album – “Bait for Steps Forward” (released in March 2023) – features a wide variety of Cape Town’s leading poets, instrumentalists and vocalists. […]
Thembi Dunjana
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Thembi Dunjana is a female jazz pianist from South Africa, and “a lover of hip hop sounds, rhythmic displacement and cool possibilities”. She received the Mzantsi Jazz award in 2021 and was a Basadi in Music award nominee in 2022.
Her album [God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi.] is a homage to the pianist’s home […]
