This is FRESH AIR. Earlier this year, South African composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, once known as Dollar Brand, was enlisted into the ranks of NEA Jazz Masters. He also has a new album out.

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is performing at the Berklee Performance Center on Saturday November 16th, presented by Celebrity Series of Boston. Al Davis and Va Lynda Robinson, hosts of ...

Abdullah Ibrahim's cosmology informs his art. While some might look upon him as an overseer at the crossroads between new and old, the tempered pianist stands as a sage, painting swirling rhythms that ...

There’s nobody who knows better how to mix disparate, even seemingly inapposite, musical moods and feelings better than Abdullah Ibrahim. In a concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Friday and Saturday, ...

Some of “The Balance” (Gearbox, out Friday), pianist Abdullah Ibrahim’s first release in five years, is redolent of the sounds of Cape Town, South Africa, where he was born: the buoyant beats and ...

South African jazz maestro Abdullah Ibrahim has just returned from a whirlwind tour of Germany and is off to prepare for his gig at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Jo’burg International Festival in ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This interview with Ibrahim took place before his Friday show with Ekaya was canceled due to illness. The eminent pianist Abdullah Ibrahim was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1934, ...

The latest album from the 84-year-old South African composer and pianist showcases his work as a master composer of melodic mood pieces. This is FRESH AIR. Earlier this year, South African composer ...