I know, I know. The response to this question is always "does it matter?" And the answer is usually "no." This album is OK, but nothing more than that. It is a mixture of stuff, often characterless, ...

Hailed as one of the most influential jazz musician to emerge from the African continent, Ethiopian keyboard player and percussionist Mulatu Astatke returns to the UC Theatre in Berkeley, playing two ...

Ethio-Jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke performed his first NYC show in ten years inside The Met Museum’s Temple of Dendur on September 9. Astatke kicked off the MetLiveArts series in collaboration with the ...

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 ...

If jazz is a dead language, “Inspiration Information 3” (Strut) is speaking in tongues. This music is a revelation, sensual and brainy, rhythmically daring and melodically lush. The signifiers of jazz ...

The most crucial figurehead in Ethiopia's recent musical history, Astatke is the central architect of Ethio-Jazz, a genre which blends Latin jazz and first wave soul and funk motifs with traditional ...

Mulatu Astatke experienced his musical conversion as a teenager while supposedly studying engineering abroad, mastering piano, vibraphone and Latin percussion in London, Boston and New York. After he ...

Athe age of 66, Mulatu Astatke is having the time of his life. The jazz composer and performer from Ethiopia is in the midst of a full-blown Indian summer in his career. He received a huge boost when ...

Berklee College of Music will be honoring the Eagles, Alison Krauss, and Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke at the school's commencement ceremony May 12 at Boston University's Agganis Arena. By James ...