Abdullah celebrates his 80th birthday by sitting down at a Fazioli piano and gently, reverently playing a seamless mix of his own compositions and lyrical free improvisations. We'll also hear his ...

Abdullah Ibrahim once told a seminar at his M7 Academy in Cape Town, "The devil lives on the stage. This is where the ego comes out." On the strength of Solotude, recorded live on his eighty-sixth ...

Down With Wilco and The Minus Five; Latvian violin virtuoso Gidon Kremer; Celtic country bluegrass from Ponticello; South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim; Folk rock adventurer Patty Larkin; ...

Getting an answer from Abdullah Ibrahim is like drawing water from a deep well. Most experienced musicians will have their patter down, and will – happily or wearily – repeat a story they have told a ...

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 ...

South African composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, formerly known as Dollar Brand, is now in his 84th year. For at least 60 of those years, he has been a jazz musician. With a long and impressive ...

When I ambled out of the Sunbet Arena last Sunday, I could just make out a setting sun behind the clouds that dotted the early evening sky. The warm day was gently giving way to a colder night, but ...

NPR described Abdullah Ibrahim's concert which is only 13 minutes long, as 'witnessing a master thoughtfully creating an atmosphere'. One of the country’s most distinguished pianists Abdullah Ibrahim ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Born in 1934 in Cape Town, Dollar Brand, as he became known, was exposed to ...

Abdullah Ibrahim is to play a one-off concert at Maynardville, Cape Town, on 18 December, 2015. Abdullah Ibrahim was formerly known as Dollar Brand and started his musical journey with formal piano ...

Blessed is the artist who has reached the zenith of his craft, and endured to reap the rewards, becoming the wise elder reflecting upon a lifetime of creative accomplishment. Having left an impressive ...

The South African pianist recorded this exquisite unaccompanied set to mark both his 80th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the end of apartheid. Half the programme, including the two brief solo ...