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With his new self-covers album, the jazz luminary discusses his genre’s past, present, and future. Photo credit: Alexis Maryon Apollo Frequencies is a series exploring sounds that seem to come from another world. In this week’s edition, Raphael Helfand catches up with the Godfather of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke. Mulatu Astatke is a popular man. At…
The icon’s catalog is refreshed with a new collection of self-covers. 81-year-old Ethio-jazz Godfather Mulatu Astatke’s self-covers album Mulatu Plays Mulatu could easily have been an exercise in ego, a simple greatest-hits record, the sort of lazy compilation one expects from legacy artists in their later years. Instead, Astatke and his longtime touring band remade…
Reflections on Blue Note Jazz Fest 2024 Looking back at the New York institution’s month-long music marathon. By Raphael Helfand Sun Ra Arkestra perform at Sony Hall. Photo by Dervon Dixon. Every June, the Blue Note Jazz Club’s flagship location in Greenwich Village becomes the nexus of a month-long celebration of the United States’…