Discovered by Duke Ellington, the musician was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2019.

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Pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim, who died Monday aged 91, escaped apartheid-era South Africa to be discovered by jazz ...

Ibrahim helped define a genre of South African jazz music in a career that spanned eight decades.

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Ibrahim, who died June 15, left South Africa in 1962 and lived in exile in the U.S. and Europe for many years. Kevin ...

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...

A legend in his own lifetime, Ibrahim returned to South Africa after he met the newly-released Nelson Mandela 1990 in Germany ...

For the first time, African music will have its own category at the Grammys. The Recording Academy will showcase three new categories for this year’s awards, including “Best African Music Performance” ...