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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nduduzo Makhathini is a prolific South African pianist, improviser, healer, educator, scholar and storyteller. He possesses a gift that enables him to articulate a distinct and rich identity and ...

Piano Sonata No 2, ‘The Passion’ Rebeca Omordia, Piano Ayo Bankole, Composer African Suite Ayo Bankole, Composer Rebeca Omordia, Piano Nigerian Suite Rebeca Omordia, Piano Ayo Bankole, Composer ...

At Catholic University on a warm September evening, a student plays piano at a fundraising dinner to celebrate the school's new arts council. As musical preludes waft through the candlelit room of ...

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 ...

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 ...