With his first album in 10 years, Mulatu Plays Mulatu, recorded in both London and Addis Ababa, 81 year-old Mulatu Astatke, ...

Hailed as one of the most influential jazz musician to emerge from the African continent, Ethiopian keyboard player and percussionist Mulatu Astatke returns to the UC Theatre in Berkeley, playing two ...

Ethio-Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke performed his first NYC show in ten years inside The Met Museum’s Temple of Dendur on September 9. Astatke kicked off the MetLiveArts series in collaboration with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Mulatu Astatke] Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month ...

Nearly 50 years ago, a bright-eyed Ethiopian teen arrived in Wrexham, a county borough in the northeastern part of Wales. His parents had sent him nearly 4,000 miles from home to attend a renowned ...

When [Mulatu Astatke] returned home in 1969 it was with the idea of creating a more ambitious musical fusion. In Addis Ababa he discovered an upsurge of activity in the world of the arts and ...

Mulatu Astatke (born 1943) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger best known as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in the westernEthiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu trained in London, New York City, and Boston ...

Mulatu Astake is also known as the father of Ethio-jazz. A virtuoso musician and notably known for his contribution on the vibraphone to music he has created a sound mixing African music with the ...

Mulatu Astatke is a musical titan, in the same league as the likes of Fela Kuti and King Sunny Ade, yet he was first recognized to most people when The Paris-based world music record label, Buda ...

Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, the 82-year-old pioneer, who has done much to bring his blend of musical ...

Wed, Aug 16, 2017, 8:00 pm, Doors: 7:00 pm In 2008, The Barbican, and then Glastonbury, hosted a concert featuring four of Ethiopia's most famed musicians, key artists from what is now seen as the ...