Many happy returns to Abdullah Ibrahim, South Africa’s wizard of Cape jazz improvisation.
A refugee from apartheid, he has lived most of his adult life in New York, performing under the stage name Dollar Brand. He took an Islamic name in 1968 and made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
One of the hidden greats.
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Lindsay McMurdo, a critic at the Edinburgh Festival, hits the elusive nail bang on the head: And therein lies both a small part of the appeal and a large part of the problem, at least […]
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