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Abdullah Ibrahim, African Magic

Audio CD

Disk ID: 209119

Disk length: 54m 37s (24 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2002

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Blue Bolero (fragment 1) 0:26
2. Third Line Samba 2:54
3. Blue Bolero (fragment 2) 0:16
4. Blues For A Hip King 3:16
5. District Six 1:51
6. Tuang Guru 3:58
7. Blue Bolero (fragment 3) 0:14
8. Joan - Cape Town Flower 3:38
9. Pule 1:39
10. The Stride 3:11
11. Thaba Bhosigo 2:22
12. The Mountain 2:19
13. Jabulani 0:41
14. Black Lightning 1:09
15. Duke 3:59
16. Solitude 0:16
17. Eleventh Hour 2:40
18. Blue Bolero (fragment 4) 0:14
19. In A Sentimental Mood 2:52
20. Moten Swing 0:33
21. For Coltrane 6:13
22. Whoza Mtwana 2:20
23. Royal Blue 3:20
24. Blue Bolero 4:01

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Review

Recorded in Berlin at the 2001 Jazz Across the Border Festival, this trio performance is a loosely knit, yet powerful suite that moves across space and time from the landscape of Ibrahim's native South Africa to the history of jazz. Along the way he pays homage to guides and mentors, like the spiritual teacher Tuang Guru and John Coltrane. Duke Ellington gets special attention in the suite's latter stages, including a brief fragment of "Solitude," a deeply personal transformation of "In a Sentimental Mood," and Ibrahim's vigorous "Duke 88." Incorporating familiar Ibrahim themes like the majestic "The Mountain," the suite is sometimes knit together by "Blue Bolero," a bittersweet melody that appears in fragmentary interludes until it ultimately emerges as the suite's lambent conclusion. Elsewhere, one piece evolves naturally into another, with Ibrahim's personal magic consisting in an ability to weld melody and rhythm together in ways that are both unexpected and absolute. Bassist Belden Bullock and drummer Sipho Kunene contribute notably to the rhythmic dialogues of "District Six," "The Stride," and the floating "For Coltrane." --Stuart Broomer

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