Throughout this decade, pianist, composer, and bandleader Bokani Dyer has stood as one of the most formidable and creative keyboard talents in South Africa today. Raised in a musical family—his father ...

Friends of Music at St. Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church will present a concert featuring pianist William Chapman Nyaho at 7 p.m. Friday. His program, "Piano Music of Africa and the African ...

Chick Corea and Keith Jarrett are widely thought to have represented ECM Records' initial solo piano forays with Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1 & 2 (1971/1972) and Facing You (1972), respectively, but a ...

This is FRESH AIR. South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim was known early in his career as Dollar Brand. He left South Africa in 1962 for Europe, where Duke Ellington heard and recorded ...

University of Pretoria provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. The philosophy of Ntu (stemming from the philosophy of ubuntu) speaks to the merging of the physical and spiritual and ...

DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. — Warren Shadd adorned the walls of his one-story home with several framed artifacts. On one wall hangs photographs of his family – his grandmother, his father, and his mother – ...

If product placement is any measure, then something’s going right. Shadd, who, as far as anyone knows, is the nation’s only African-American piano maker, has his high-end, made-to-order instruments in ...

If you said it’s one of the many names for an African thumb piano, you’d be right. If you know the Everett-based band Kalimba, you not only answered correctly, you probably know what a great Earth, ...

The reissued album features the sound of the South African musician once known as Dollar Brand. Critic Kevin Whitehead says: "When Abdullah got a-rumbling, his piano was like a force of nature." This ...