The godfather of Ethiopian jazz plays his last live concert

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience for the last time. Last ...
The Arts Desk

Éthiopiques: Mulatu Astatke and the Story of Ethiopian Jazz

Falcetto was a promoter of music when he first heard Ethiopian music in 1984. As he explained when I met him, “A friend of mine was a stage manager for a theatre troupe who had been touring Africa and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sons of Ethiopia: A Snapshot of Admas and D.C. Music in the 1980s

Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...
NPR

Meklit Hadero discusses her album, 'A Piece of Infinity,' a nod to her Ethiopian roots

The music artist Meklit Hadero has lived in the U.S. since she left Ethiopia decades ago. (SOUNDBITE OF MEKLIT HADERO SONG, "LEFEQER ENEGEZA") MEKLIT HADERO: After the Ethiopian Revolution, there were ...