50 great moments in jazz: Abdullah Ibrahim

While apartheid divided a nation, South African jazz artists were exporting a heady mix of harmony, energy and hopeThe English critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers once suggested western musical structures mirrored that civilisation's impulse to appropriate and conquer, while southern Africa's represented harmony with its surroundings. Mellers chose a fitting place to air such a provocative opinion: the liner notes of a jazz album by South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim. Known as D...

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