Abdullah Ibrahim Solo Piano
Artist: Abdullah Ibrahim Event: Solo Piano Dates and Times: Friday, 31 October 2025, 20:00 Saturday, 1 November 2025, 20:00 Location: Hürzinger Interview: Available in PIANIST magazine Ticket Pre-Sale: Gasthof Hürzinger – Telefon: 083036 1266 Address: Endorferstraße 13, 83083 Söllhuben Email: info@hürzinger.eu Website: www.pianist-magazin.de
Abdullah Ibrahim – Pianist Magazine
The jazz pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim is one of the influential voices of South Africa. His music became the soundtrack of the resistance against apartheid and accompanied Nelson Mandela’s Freedom Struggle. Last year he celebrated his 90th birthday. With PIANIST he talked about his fascination for Fazioli grand pianos and new concert projects. Abdullah […]
Must-See Three – Jazz in NYC
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio recently performed at 92nd Street Y in New York in November. I’m recalling a solo “Single Petal of a Rose” from years ago that was so gorgeous it made a Boston audience gasp. And I’m remembering my last encounter with the maestro at BAM (2018, maybe?), a show that generated a tsunami […]
Bklyn Sounds 11/13/2024—11/19/2024
There is something that I am trying to say right now. Something about this moment, about why it’s not (too much of) a surprise, and how it actually clears the head. Something about why Dada Strain’s principles were designed for a moment like this, how those principles being put into action by an off-the-plane immigrant […]
Abdullah Ibrahim Trio at 92NY
The South African jazz pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim has lived in the New York area since the 60s, when he was known as Dollar Brand and had an unexpected radio hit with his piece “Cape Town Fringe.” He quickly established himself as one of South Africa’s most important political and musical voices, and his […]
At 90, Jazz Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is Still Finding New Ways to Engage With Music
South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my trio,” he recalls. But instead of the typical bass and drums rhythm section, he brought a cellist and a […]
Pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim joins OHAM’s collection of major figures in American music
The library’s growing Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection has added an audio interview with the internationally acclaimed musician Abdullah Ibrahim. OHAM’s core unit, Major Figures in American Music Collection, comprises more than 1,700 recorded interviews, from 1970 to the present day, with noted composers and musicians. Ibrahim, born in Cape Town, South Africa, is […]
Abdullah Ibrahim on his new trio, meeting Duke Ellington, and his accidental anthem, “Mannenberg”
South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is performing at the Berklee Performance Center on Saturday November 16th, presented by Celebrity Series of Boston. Al Davis and Va Lynda Robinson, hosts of Jazz on 89.7, spoke to him in advance of the show, reflecting on his roots in Cape Town, his formative years in New York, and his […]
At 90, jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is still finding new ways to engage with music
South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim laughs when he remembers a gig he played shortly after he moved to America in 1965. “There was this club in New York and I suggested that I bring my trio,” he recalls. But instead of the typical bass and drums rhythm section, he brought a cellist and a bass clarinetist. […]
Shubert Ending Year With String Of Shows, New Space
Jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim waited at the piano, listening intently, while his bandmates, Cleave Guyton on flute and Noah Jackson on bass, finished a quietly acrobatic rendering of a Duke Ellington classic that was also a nod to Ibrahim’s past. Guyton and Jackson finished, and left the stage. Then Ibrahim began, slowly, deliberately, with exquisite touch and gorgeous […]