Abdullah Ibrahim - Collection: Part 2 (1960-2014)

Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the subgenre Cape jazz. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. With his wife, the jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, he is father to the New York underground rapper Jean Grae, as well as to a son, Tsakwe.

Tracklist:

01. Ornette's Cornet (5:24)
02. All Day & All Night Long (5:28)
03. Sweet Basil Blues (6:22)
04. Blue Monk (6:06)
05. Tsakwe Here Comes The Postman (11:46)
06. Blues For A Hip King (9:47)
07. Blues For B (3:28)
08. Mysterioso (4:42)
09. Just You, Just Me (4:59)
10. Eclipse At Dawn (4:03)
11. King Kong (5:25)
12. Khumbula Jane (5:57)

Personnel:
Dollar Brand - p, ss
Blue Mitchell (3, 5, 6) - tp, flgn
Buster Cooper (3, 5, 6) - tb
Basil Coetzee - ts (1-6), fl (4); Arthur Jacobs (1, 2), Duku Makasi (4) - ts
Robbie Jansen (1, 2), Kippie Moeketsi (4) - as
Sipho Gumede (4), Victor Ntoni (7-12) - b; Lionel Beukes (1-3, 5, 6) - el-b
Nazier Kapdi (1, 2), Gilbert Mathews (4), Doug Sydes (3, 5, 6), Makaya Ntshoko (7-12) - d

Rec.: 1974 (#1, 2) 1976 (#3-6) 1979 (#7-12).




Tracklist:

01. Earth Bird (3:03)
02. African Market (8:21)
03. Mindif (6:48)
04. Pule (Rain) (4:54)
05. Protee (4:41)
06. Star Dance (5:01)
07. Theme For Mark (3:28)
08. Serenity (The Daybreak Song) (3:08)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - vo, fl, p
Craig Handy - ts, fl
Ricky Ford - ss, ts
Benny Powell - tb
David Williams - b
Billy Higgins - d

Rec.: Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, March 7 & 8, 1988.




Tracklist:

01. Soweto Is Where It's At (17:46)
02. Tintinyana (12:05)
03. Little Boy (2:55)
04. Cherry (5:14)
05. Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro (19:37)
06. Shrimp Boats (11:56)
07. Salaam (2:11)
08. Just A Song (4:13)

Personnel:

Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Dennis Mpale (1), Blue Mitchell (5) - tp
Buster Cooper (5) - tb
Basil Coetzee - ts (1, 5), fl (5)
Duke Makasi (1), Harold Land (5) - ts
Sipho Gumede (1), Victor Ntoni (2-4, 6-8), Lionel Beukes (5) - b
Peter Morake (1), Nelson Magwaza (2-4, 6-8), Doug Sydes (5) - d

Rec.: 1971-1979.




Tracklist:

01. Black Lightning (14:27)
02. Little Boy (8:31)
03. Black And Brown Cherries (7:26)
04. Ntyilo Ntyilo (4:54)
05. Mannenberg Is Where It's Happening (13:39)
06. The Pilgrim (12:48)

Personnel:
Dollar Brand - p
Basil Coetze - ts, fl
Kippie Moeketsi - as (1-3)
Duku Makasi - ts (1-3)
Robbie Jansen - as, fl (5, 6)
Sipho Gumede - b (1-3)
Basil Moses - b (4)
Paul Michaels - b (5, 6)
Gilbert Mathews - d (1-3)
Monty Weber - d (4-6)

Rec.: 1976 (#1-3), 1977 (#4-6)




Tracklist:

01. Toi-Toi (3:31)
02. African River (9:48)
03. Joan - Capetown Flower (5:50)
04. Chisa (4:28)
05. Sweet Samba (5:57)
06. Duke 88 (8:31)
07. The Wedding (4:00)
08. The Mountain Of The Night (3:34)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Robin Eubanks - tb
John Stubblefield - fl, ts
Horace Alexander Young - ss, ts, pic
Howard Johnson - tu, tp, bars
Buster Williams - b
Brian Adams - d

Rec.: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, June 1, 1989.




Tracklist:

01. The Mountain (3:24)
02. Bra Timing From Phomolong (5:21)
03. Ekaya (7:59)
04. Sotho Blue (5:57)
05. Tuan Guru (5:27)
06. Ntyilo Ntyilo (4:41)
07. Nelson Mandela (5:00)
08. The Wedding (2:42)
09. Mannenberg (Revisited) (6:12)
10. Cape Town (7:11)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Ekaya are:
Carlos Ward - as, fl
Ricky Ford - ts
Charles Davis - bars
Dick Griffin - tb
Cecil McBee or David Williams - b
Ben Riley - d

This is selections from two earlier albums: "Ekaya" (1983) and "Water From an Ancient Well" (1985).




Tracklist:

01. Calypso Minor (5:00)
02. Angelica (6:29)
03. Meditation II (3:38)
04. Nisa (12:25)
05. Kata (7:48)
06. Meditation I (5:11)
07. Calypso Major (5:03)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Ricky Ford - ts
Horace Alexander Young - as, ss, fl
Jimmy Cozier - bars, cl
Frank Lacy - tb
Buster Williams - b
Ben Riley - d

Rec.: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 18, 1990.




Tracklist:

CD 1 [59:45]
01. Namhanje (16:53)
02. Zikr (Remembrance Of Allah) (5:27)
03. Tsakve (1:32)
04. The Perfumed Forest Wet With Rain (4:00)
05. Liberation Dance (When Tarzan Met The African Freedom Fighter) (4:34)
06. Ntsikana's Bell (6:07)
07. Adhan & Allah-O-Akbar (4:12)
08. Banyana - The Children Of Africa (2:02)
09. Ishmael (14:58)

CD 2 [60:37]
01. Thaba Bosingo (Mountain Of The Night) (4:20)
02. Siya Hamba Namhlanje (We Are Leaving Today) (3:28)
03. Iza-Ne Zembe Gawuale (Bring The Ax) (4:11)
04. Black And Brown Cherries (7:56)
05. Blues For A Hip King (5:43)
06. For Coltrane (7:18)
07. Joan - Capetown Flower (5:46)
08. The Wedding (3:55)
09. The Mountain Of The Night (3:34)
10. Earth Bird (3:02)
11. African Market (8:17)
12. Serenity (The Daybreak Song) (3:07)

Rec.: 1979-1989.




Tracklist:

01. The Praise Song (4:53)
02. Just Arrived (4:53)
03. Ancient Cape (4:39)
04. Desert Air (4:56)
05. Come Sunday (3:59)
06. District Six (4:34)
07. Sweet Devotion (6:02)
08. Edie (4:03)
09. For John Coltrane (7:58)
10. Tsidi (3:16)
11. Mizu • Water (4:09)

Abdullah Ibrahim - p, syn (#1, 11), vo (#4, 9)

Rec.: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, December 18, 1991.




Tracklist:

01. Bayi Lam (4:20)
02. Dindela (5:34)
03. Barakaat (3:30)
04. Tafelberg Samba / Carnival Samba (6:59)
05. Mantra Mode (9:30)
06. Beautiful Love (4:06)
07. Tskave / Royal Blue (6:13)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p; d (#6)
Basil Coetzee - ts
Robbie Jansen - as, bars, fl
Johnny Mekoa - tp
Monty Weber - d
Spencer Mbadu - b
Errol Dyers - d

Rec.: Cape Town, South Africa, January 1991.




Tracklist:

01. Knysna Blue (15:46)
02. You Can't Stop Me Now (5:33)
03. Peace (3:56)
04. Three #1 (3:13)
05. Kofifi (2:51)
06. Three #2 (3:00)
07. Cape Town (6:32)
08. Ask Me Now (2:58)

Abdullah Ibrahim - all instruments

Rec.: Milestone Studios, Capetown, South Africa, September & October 1993.




Tracklist:

01. Nisa (7:30)
02. Duke 88 (6:55)
03. Cherry / Mannenberg (3:40)
04. African River (8:07)
05. Tuang Guru (8:03)
06. Stardance (6:37)
07. African Marketplace (1:03)
08. Tintinyana (8:29)
09. Barakaat (5:52)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Marcus McLaurine - b
George Johnson - d

Rec.: live at Sweet Basil Club, NYC, NY, January 1995.




Tracklist:

01. Excursions (2:52)
02. Eleventh Hour (4:22)
03. Kofifi Blue (2:38)
04. Chisa (3:59)
05. Song For Aggerey (3:28)
06. The Stride (3:20)
07. The Call (4:45)
08. African Marketplace (5:25)
09. Joan - Cape Town Flower (9:30)
10. Maraba Blue (4:35)
11. Monk In Harlem (6:02)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Marcus McLaurine - b
George Gray - d

Rec.: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, August 15, 1996.




Tracklist:

01. Mindif (6:40)
02. Ishmael (2:34)
03. Tsakwe (5:36)
04. The Call (6:44)
05. Damara Blue (2:22)
06. The Wedding (4:53)
07. Blanton (orchestra only) (1:53)
08. Aspen (piano solo) (4:32)
09. Barakaat (4:55)
10. Tintinyana (5:55)
11. The Mountain Of The Night (4:07)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Belden Bullock - b
George Gray - d
& String orchestra of members of the Youth Orchestra of the European Community

Rec.: L'Abbatiale de Payerne, Switzerland, November 12-17, 1997.




Tracklist:

01. Damara Blue (4:06)
02. Someday Soon Sweet Samba (4:46)
03. Cape Town To Congo Square - 1st Movement: African Street Parade (7:36)
04. Cape Town To Congo Square - 2nd Movement: District Six Carnival (2:04)
05. Song For Sathima (3:27)
06. Cape Town To Congo Square - 3rd Movement: Too-Kah (2:00)
07. Tintinyana (3:47)
08. Tuang Guru (6:16)
09. Eleventh Hour (3:56)
10. Water From an Ancient Well (5:42)
11. Tsakwe - Royal Blue (3:20)
12. Soweto (4:08)
13. The Mountain (2:17)
14. The Wedding (2:12)
15. Barakaat (The Blessing) (3:01)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Marcus McLaurine - b
George Gray - d
Feya Faku - tp (7, 11, 12)

Rec.: live at Spier Estate, Cape Town, South Africa, December 13, 1997.




Tracklist:

01. Ritus (8:27)
02. Damara Blue (2:09)
03. Mountain In The Night (4:41)
04. The Call (6:04)
05. Blanton (2:08)
06. Ishmael (3:09)
07. Barakaat (5:23)
08. Tintinyana (6:31)
09. The Wedding (4:24)
10. Mindif (7:00)
11. African Marketplace (2:52)

Personnel on track #1:
Absolute Ensemble Kristjan Jarvi
Frank Almond, Vesselin Gellev, Elizabeth Nielson - 1st vln; Pauline Lee, Lynn Bechtold - 2nd vln
Lois Martin, Olga Terlitsky - vla; Ann Kim, Ariane Lallemand - clo; Mat Fieldes - b
Personnel on track #2-11:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Marcus McLaurine - b
George Gray - d
Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra (directed by Barbara Yahr)

Rec.: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Studio 1, Munich, Germany, January 26-28, 1998 (#2-11); Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY, February 13, 2001 (#1).




Tracklist:

01. Imam (6:10)
02. Zikr (5:28)
03. For Monk (4:40)
04. Zimbabwe (4:18)
05. Mandela (4:59)
06. The Mountain (3:21)
07. Pule (Rain) (4:53)
08. Chisa (4:25)
09. Toi-Toi (3:28)
10. Calypso Minor (4:58)
11. Tsidi (3:15)
12. Cape Town (6:29)
13. African Marketplace (5:23)
14. Mountain Of The Night (4:08)

Rec.: 1979-1997.




Tracklist:

01. Kramat (7:43)
02. Announcement (0:15)
03. Mindif (12:04)
04. Announcement (0:10)
05. Black And Brown Cherries (9:35)
06. Announcement (0:15)
07. Pule (12:03)
08. Announcement (0:07)
09. African Market (16:41)
10. Whoza Mtwana (4:53)
11. Announcement (0:21)
12. Duke (7:07)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
NDR Big Band (directed by Dieter Glawischnig):
Lennart Axelsson, Ingolf Burkhardt, Claus Stцtter, Reiner Winterschladen - tp, flgn
Joe Gallardo, Michael Danner, Jurgen Neudert, Christophe Schweizer - tb
Fiete Felsch, Peter Bolte, Frank Delle, Lutz Buchner, Edgar Herzog - ww
Stephan Diez - g
Lucas Lindholm - b
Alex Riel - d
Jose Cortijo - perc

Rec.: Jazz Open Air AM Rothenbaum, NDR, Hamburg, Germany, June 24, 2000.




Tracklist:

01. Blue Bolero (fragment 1) (0:26)
02. Third Line Samba (2:55)
03. Blue Bolero (fragment 2) (0:17)
04. Blues For A Hip King (3:16)
05. District Six (1:51)
06. Tuang Guru (3:59)
07. Blue Bolero (fragment 3) (0:15)
08. Joan - Cape Town Flower (3:39)
09. Pule (1:40)
10. The Stride (3:12)
11. Thaba Bhosigo (2:23)
12. The Mountain (2:20)
13. Machopi / Jabulani (0:41)
14. Black Lightning (1:10)
15. Duke 88 (4:00)
16. Solitude (0:17)
17. Eleventh Hour (2:41)
18. Blue Bolero (fragment 4) (0:14)
19. In A Sentimental Mood (2:52)
20. Moten Swing (0:33)
21. For Coltrane (6:14)
22. Whoza Mtwana (2:21)
23. Tsakwe / Royal Blue (3:20)
24. Blue Bolero (4:01)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Belden Bullock - b
Sipho Kunene - d

Rec.: live at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, July 13, 2001.




Tracklist:

01. Ntsikana's Bell (6:09)
02. Ishmael (6:19)
03. The Perfumed Garden Wet With Rain (4:02)
04. Imam (6:11)
05. Saud (5:58)
06. Earth Bird (3:07)
07. African Market Place (8:23)
08. Ancient Cape (4:40)
09. The Mountain (3:23)
10. Siya Hamba Namhlanje (3:33)
11. Mannenberg (Revisited) (6:14)
12. Mindif (6:42)
13. Calypso Minor Remixed (4:19)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p, vo, ss, fl (bamboo)
Charles Davis, Ricky Ford, Craig Handy, Talib Qadr, Carlos Ward - ww
Belden Bullock, Johnny Dyani, Cecil McBee, Essiet Okun Essiet - b
John Betsch, Roy Brooks, George Gray, Billy Higgins, Ben Riley - d
Johnny Classens Kumalo - vo

Rec.: 1973–2004.




Tracklist:

01. Ocean & The River (2:45)
02. In The Evening (3:06)
03. Blues For Bea (0:53)
04. Prelude 'For Coltrane' (0:55)
05. Aspen (1:13)
06. Blues For A Hip King (6:03)
07. Third Line Samba (2:10)
08. Tookah (1:26)
09. Pula (1:32)
10. For Coltrane (5:07)
11. Dust (1:05)
12. Corridors Radiant (1:18)
13. Jabulani (1:05)
14. Dust (Reprise) (5:13)
15. Nisa (6:15)
16. 'Senzo' - Contours And Time (2:29)
17. Meditation / Mummy (2:17)
18. Banyana, Children Of Africa (0:52)
19. Mamma (1:05)
20. Blue Bolero (6:07)
21. In A Sentimental Mood (3:01)
22. Ocean & The River (1:23)

Abdullah Ibrahim - piano solo

Rec.: WDR Studio 4, Cologne, Germany, April 2008.




Tracklist:

01. Green Kalahari (2:36)
02. Song For Sathima (6:41)
03. Mandela (7:04)
04. District Six (Trance Circle Dance) (10:28)
05. Bombella (6:09)
06. Meditation - Joan Capetown Flower (Emerald Bay) (10:08)
07. I Mean You / For Monk (14:05)
08. For Lawrence Brown (Remembrance) (2:56)
09. Excursions (Masters And Muses) (7:37)
10. African River (6:46)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Wim Both, Rob Bruynen, Andy Haderer, John Marshall, Klaus Osterloh - tp
Dave Horler, Bernt Laukamp, Ludwig Nuss - tb; Mattis Cederberg - btb
Heiner Wiberny, Karolina Strassmayer - as, fl, cl; Olivier Peters, Paul Heller - ts, fl, cl; Jens Neufang - bars, fl, cl
Paul Shigihara - g
John Goldsby - b
Hans Dekker - d

Rec.: WDR Studio 4, Cologne, Germany, March 31 - April 4, 2008.




Tracklist:

01. Calypso Minor (6:24)
02. Sotho Blue (5:27)
03. Abide (2:52)
04. Nisa (6:32)
05. The Mountain (2:54)
06. The Wedding (3:47)
07. Glass Enclosure (7:00)
08. Star Dance (5:09)
09. Joan Capetown Flower (Emerald Bay) (9:22)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Andrae Murchison - tb
Cleave Guyton - as, fl
Keith Loftis - ts
Jason Marshall - bars
Belden Bullock - b
George Gray - d

Rec.: Hansahaus Studios, Bonn, Germany, March 2010.




Tracklist:

01. Suite I (solo) (11:34)
02. Suite II (53:43)
03. Suite III (28:10)

Personnel:
Abdullah Ibrahim - p
Belden Bullock - b
George Gray - d

Rec.: Cité de La Musique, Paris, France, September 2, 2011.




Tracklist:

01. Mukashi [01:01]
02. Dream Time [03:30]
03. The Stars Will Remember [04:35]
04. Serenity [03:59]
05. Mississippi [04:38]
06. Peace [04:18]
07. Matzikama [04:34]
08. Cara Mia [03:07]
09. Root [03:40]
10. Trace Elements For Monk [05:40]
11. Krotoa - Crystal Clear [03:59]
12. Krotoa - Devotion [01:54]
13. Krotoa - Endurance [01:24]
14. In the Evening [03:36]
15. Exxence [02:13]
16. The Balance [04:38]

Personnel:

Abdullah Ibrahim - piano, flute, vocals
Cleave Guyton - saxophone, flute, clarinet
Eugen Bazijan - cello
Scott Roller - cello




Tracklist:

01 - Celestial Bird Dance [00:01:18]
02 - Threshold [00:03:22]
03 - Open Door - Within [00:03:47]
04 - Unfettered - Muken [00:01:52]
05 - Spiral Mist [00:02:15]
06 - Just Arrived [00:03:29]
07 - Kalahari Pleiades [00:06:09]
08 - For Coltrane [00:00:57]
09 - Twelve By Twelve [00:01:39]
10 - Shadows Lean Against My Song [00:01:53]
11 - The Song Is My Story - URA [00:01:32]
12 - Marinska [00:02:16]
13 - African Dawn [00:00:39]
14 - Eclipse At Dawn [00:02:01]
15 - Phambili - Looking Ahead [00:01:40]
16 - For Coltrane [00:04:28]
17 - Children Dance [00:00:33]

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