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[wd_asp id=1]Talking Music: A Life in Jazz
Talking Music: A Life in Jazz
A Conversation with Abdullah Ibrahim and Nathaniel Mackey
Duke professor and acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey talked with South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim about his wide-ranging career in music. Ibrahim played with his ensemble Ekaya on Friday, October 16, in Baldwin Auditorium.
Free and open to the public. A part of an on-going series, Talking Music: Conversations with Scholars, Writes, Archivists, and Artists, co-sponsored by Duke Performances, the Forum for Scholars, and the Duke Africa Initiative.
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“In a similarity some of Ibrahim’s first listeners recognized between Thelonious Monk’s music and Ibrahim’s, Mackey could hear another principle that structures his playing and philosophy: the relationship between breath and memory.” —Tsitsi Jaji, PRACTICE: Listening to Nathaniel Mackey and Abdullah Ibrahim, Forum Online
The Duke Chronicle‘s Lucy Zhang wrote about Ibrahim’s discussion with Nathaniel Mackey for the October 22 issue of the newspaper.
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Nathaniel Mackey
Duke University
Poet, novelist, and critic Nathaniel Mackey is Duke University’s Reynolds Price Professor of Creative Writing. He joined Duke’s faculty in 2010, after his work as a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Nathaniel Mackey works in the areas of modern and postmodern literature in the U.S. and the Caribbean, creative…...
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Since signing his first record deal under the patronage of Duke Ellington in 1964, South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim has made a staggering fifty-two albums as pianist and bandleader and has played a central role in his country’s twentieth-century musical and political landscape. Born into the rich culture of pre-Apartheid Cape…...
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