Playlist
Jazz Library: Abdullah Ibrahim
DISC 1
Title Water from an ancient well
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim
Composer Ibrahim
Album Water from an Ancient Well
Label Tiptoe / Enja
Number 88812 Track 5
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Dick Griffin, tb; Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Charles Davis, reeds; David Williams, b; Ben Riley d. Oct 1985
DISC 2
Title Eclipse at Dawn
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim
Composer Abdullah Ibrahim
Album Blues For A Hip King
Label Camden
Number CDN 1010 Track 10
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) p; Johnny Gertze, b; Makaya Ntshoko, d. Johannesburg Feb 4 1960
DISC 3
Title Dollars Moods
Artist Jazz Epistles
Composer Masekela
Album Jazz In Africa Vol. 1
Label Camden
Number CDN 1004 Track 7
Personnel: Hugh Masekela, t, Jonas Gwangwa, tb, and Kippie Moeketsie, as; Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) p; Johnny Gertze, b; Makaya Ntshoko, d. Johannesburg, Jan. 1960.
DISC 4
Title The Mountain
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim and Ekaya
Composer Abdullah Ibrahim
Album The Mountain
Label Camden
Number CDN 1002 Track 1
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Ricky Ford, ts; Carlos Ward, as/fl; Charles Davis, bar; Dick Griffin, tb; Cecil McBee b; Ben Riley, d. NYC 1985.
DISC 5
Title Mannenberg
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim
Composer Abdullah Ibrahim
Album Voice of Africa
Label Camden
Number CDN 1007 Track 5
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Robbie Jansen, as; Basil Coetzee, ts/fl; Paul Michaels, b; Monty Weber, d. Capetown June 1974.
DISC 6
Title Darn That Dream
Artist Sathima Bea Benjamin
Composer De Lange / Van Heusen
Album Morning in Paris
Label Ekapa
Number SA 004 Track 1
Personnel: Sathima Bea Benjamin, v; Abdullah Ibrahim, piano, Svend Assmussen, vn; Johnny Gertze, b; Makaya Ntshoko, d. Paris, Feb 23, 1963.
DISC 7
Title Tintinyana
Artist Elvin Jones
Composer Abdullah Ibrahim
Album And Then Again / Midnight Walk
Label Collectables
Number 6242 Track 10
Personnel: Thad Jones, t; Hank Mobley, ts; Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Steve James, elp; Donald Moore, b; Elvin Jones, d; George Abend, perc. 24 March 1966.
DISC 8
Title Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro
Artist Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim)
Composer Ibrahim
Album African Piano
Label ECM
Number 835020 Track 1
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, solo piano. 22 Oct 1969.
DISC 9
Title Kalahari
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim
Composer Ibrahim
Album Various Artists: Jazz In Africa Vol. 2
Label Camden
Number CDN 1011 Track 6
Personnel: Robbie Jansen, Basil Coetzee, Arthur Jacobs, reeds; Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Lionel Beukes, b; Nazier Kapdi, d. 1973 (originally on Underground in Africa)
DISC 10
Title The Stride
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim
Composer Ibrahim
Album African Magic
Label Enja / Tiptoe
Number 63757 78452 Track 10
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Belden Bullock, b; Sipho Kunene, d. House of World Culture, Berlin, 13 July 2001.
DISC 11
Title African Marketplace
Artist Abdullah Ibrahim Trio, Munich Radio Symphony, Barbara Yahr
Composer Ibrahim
Album African Symphony
Label Enja
Number 9410-2 Track 10
Personnel: Abdullah Ibrahim, p; Marcus McLaurin, b; George Gray d. Munich Radio Symphony, dir Barbara Yahr.
read Alyn Shipton's Abdullah Ibrahim biography - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/abdullah_ibrahim.shtml
email the programme at jazzlibrary@bbc.co.uk
