Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Mulatu Astatke] Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month ...

During the second half of the 20th century, cosmopolitan Ethiopians were delighted to see jazz giant Duke Ellington receive their country’s Medal of Honor from Emperor Haile Selassie. At the same time ...

The classically trained musician was associated with the jazz genre and spent her life in a convent. She will remain in death as much as in life a figure of beautiful contradictions. Her legacy as a ...

Singer-songwriter Meklit Hadero honors and innovates the tradition of Ethiopian folk music with her latest album, A Piece of Infinity.

Yirga's debut album is called Guzo. Samuel Yirga is a pianist from Ethiopia. A 20-something prodigy, Yirga is too young to have experienced the Ethio-jazz movement of the early 1970s, but he has ...

ADDIS ABABA, April 30 (Reuters) - Young Ethiopians packed into the compound of the Swedish embassy in Addis Ababa on Saturday night to savour an "Ethio Jazz" performance, an annual festival that ...

We hear from our listeners on the Lebanon war, pulling bodies from the Tigris River in Iraq, and Ethiopian jazz. You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. LIANE HANSEN, host: Time now for ...

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 ...

When the band QWANQWA takes the stage of the BU Global Music Festival on Saturday, Sept. 17, it’ll be making its Boston debut — as are five of the other groups playing the free event. But if the ...

PUTNEY — The Anbessa Orchestra featuring special guest Gili Yalo will take the stage at Cooper Field, 41 Sand Hill Road, in Putney as part of Next Stage Arts’ Bandwagon summer series Sunday at 5 p.m.

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, the 82-year-old pioneer, who has done much to bring his blend of musical ...