South African Jazz pianist
just done a trip to south africa (back in oz now), while i was there i met a dj from sa jazz fm, we had a chat and he thought i might like a pianist called abdullah ibrahim, a south african jazz pianist.
i quite enjoyed his music, and very different as a lot of his jazz is inspired by local south african music, so i thought i might introduce him here to anyone interested.
his jazz is very bluesy with pieces ranging from full blues to jazz numbers.
check him out for something different.
cheers
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he came in and played for a full set (i was getting paid and he was just playing for fun). he played a bunch of white key modal stuff.
it was nice, i just stood behind him trying to steal his tricks.
what really blew me away though is that he looked just like the photos of jelly roll morton (i'm not kidding).
a lot of his material uses very simple, gospel-related chord sequences (like c - c7/e - f - f#dim - c/g), but check out his awesome tunes the mountain and the wedding - both have really beautiful changes!
tim
therefore any recordings of dollar brand will be earlier recordings than any that are listed under abdullah ibrahim.
check out his album 'blues for a hip king' there's a nice mixture of influences on that record.
thanks for reminding about ibrahim!
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