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 is an innovative multi-talented musician, composer, arranger and the founder of Ethio Jazz. Born in Jimma, Ethiopia, Mulatu Astatke studied at Lindisfarne College and Trinity College of ...

Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke took a break from his extensive 2018 European concert tour to play at the 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival. This should come as no surprise given that he ...

Ethiopian tuning, Latin rhythms, the wah-wah pedal – ahead of a festival of African culture, Richard Williams hails a composer who likes to mix it up ‘ Everybody knows that Ethiopian jazz is the only ...

The last time we checked in with Ethiopian jazz pioneer/composer/multi-tasker Mulatu Astatke, we spent some time pondering how to categorize his "Ethio-jazz." It's ...

Astatke's music was used in the soundtrack of Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: ...

Most of us don’t think of music as a science. Mulatu Astatke, the Ethiopian vibraphonist who created the style known as “Ethio-jazz,” says he’s never thought of his invention as anything else. “I’ve ...

I know, I know. The response to this question is always "does it matter?" And the answer is usually "no." This album is OK, but nothing more than that. It is a mixture of stuff, often characterless, ...

Mulatu Astatke’s exuberant blend of the best in African and western-themed improvisation is a finely balanced craft Nobody fuses the sounds and rhythms of African, American and European music the way ...

For the first 40 years of his professional life, composer and vibraphonist Mulatu Astatke, the father of Ethio-jazz, remained practically unknown outside his own country. That changed in 2005, when ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In the swinging Addis Ababa of 1973, Mulatu Astatke played a joint concert at the fashionable Hilton ...