Mulatu astatke biography samples
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Mulatu Astatke (born on December 19, 1943; surname sometimes spelled Astatqé on French-language releases: Mulatu Astatqé) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger best known as the father of Ethio-jazz.
Born in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston where he combined his jazz and Latin music interests with traditional Ethiopian music. Astatke led his band while playing vibraphone and conga drums—instruments that he introduced into Ethiopian popular music—as well as other percussion instruments, keyboards and organ. His albums focus primarily on instrumental music, and Astatke appears on all three known albums of instrumentals that were released during Ethiopia's Golden ’70s.
Astatke's family sent the young Mulatu to study engineering in Wales during the late 1950s. Instead, he earned a degree in music through studies at the Welsh Lindisfarne College and then Trinity College of Music in London. In the 1960s, Astatke moved to the United States, where he became the first African student to enroll at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, where he studied vibraphone and percussion.
While living in the US, Astatke became interested in Latin jazz and recorded his first two albums, Afro-Latin Soul,
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(music: Mulatu Astatke – “I Faram Gami I Faram”)
Mulatu Astatke
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Mulatu Astatke
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Monk One
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Mulatu Astatke
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Hybrid Music: Mulatu Astatke's Yekatit Ethio Jazz (2016 - honours thesis)
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Addressing a lack of analysis of traditional and contemporary Ethiopian Music.
This thesis addresses a perceived a lack of analysis of traditional and contemporary Ethiopian
Music . Teffera (2008) states there is a lack of in-depth theoretical analysis of traditional and contemporary Ethiopian music, especially in regards to aspects such as harmony, instrumentation and arrangement. Analysis of these musical elements in isolation of the cultural context can defined as a 'musicological' analytical framework. By embarking on a musicological analysis of selected aspects of the music recordings included in the album Yekatit Ethio Jazz, and then contextualising this analysis with a discussion of a specific cultural context, this research project aims to fill a gap within the body of knowledge regarding Ethio-jazz and link the cultural context surrounding the development of Ethio-jazz to the way the music actually sounds.
Examining a Hybridised Style; a Hybridised Musician.
Ethio-jazz and contemporary Ethiopian music can be defined as a hybridised musical style. The name Ethio-jazz itself alludes to a musical style that combines more ancient Ethiopian music such as zema (music of the Ethio