The solemnity that has sometimes quietened the defiantly jubilant music of South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim hardly touches this terrific big-band album at all. Ibrahim, now 75, is teamed here with Cologne's fine WDR orchestra,
Anthony Tommasini’s Book Notes music playlist for his book Voice of a
Century
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"Perhaps because at my core I am a musician and a former performing pianist
who became a critic and author, I almost never listen to music when I’m
writing...
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