jazz

jazz

Music Break

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRmpJ_EpJE Dub Colossus member Samuel Yirga “plays one night a week in Addis’s only jazz club/coffee

Found Object, No. 11

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwOqtiVVCI&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Corrected: A rare film clip (there must be more where this came from), posted on Youtube

Portico Quartet

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6hPuui-l8&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Next Tuesday (September 28th)  and Wednesday (September 29th) London jazz group Portico Quartet–their sound has

Blue Note

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrvzEbrf8Ow&w=500&h=307&rel=0] Master musician Dudu Pukwana, he played the  saxophone, who was part of a great generation

Addis Swing

The revival of Ethiopian jazz, a tradition that dates back to the 1920s, and had its heyday under Emperor Haile Selassie.

Let Robeson Sing

Manic Street Preachers pay homage to the greatest American of the first half of the twentieth century, Paul Robeson. The music video by Nigerian Andrew Dosunmu is a tribute too.