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Title: Abdullah Ibrahim, ultimate African musical ambassador?
Review: He's been around long enough. He comes from a country (South Africa) typifying and perhaps summing up what's wrong with colonialism, thus giving him that essential oppression-earned gravitas. And he seems somehow to have grafted an authentic African sensibility onto a genuine yet progressive assimilation of Duke Ellington, perhaps the greatest of all jazzmen.And, yes, there really is magic in the air on his latest cd, African Magic. Perhaps it's the recurring fragment, "Blue Bolero," finally fully realized and unfolded as the last number in this live concert, but slyly and serendipitously salted into the procedings throughout (no less than four times). Perhaps it's the bizarre juxtiposition of Berlin and Africa that yields these mysterioso results. Perhaps it's simply a faithful jazz practitioner finally reaching critical mass. Whatever.But be advised. Something truly special is going down here. Don't miss out.
