You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: Ethio-jazz. But when he talks about the art form, he tends to focus on its ...
ADDIS ABABA, April 30 (Reuters) - Young Ethiopians packed into the compound of the Swedish embassy in Addis Ababa on Saturday night to savour an "Ethio Jazz" performance, an annual festival that ...
Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist and musician Mulatu Astatke founded a new genre of music, Ethio-jazz. In 1966 he recorded this original sound with his band The Ethiopian Quintet. Show more For more ...