Ethio-jazz

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Ethio-jazz is the name that the vibraphonist and arranger Mulatu Astatke gave to his blend of Ethiopian music, jazz and Latin. He studied in London and at Berklee in Boston, played with Latin musicians in New York and returned to Addis Ababa in the late 1960s. There, under Emperor Haile Selassie, a lively scene of clubs, hotel bands and small record labels flourished. Ethiopian music uses pentatonic scales of its own, the qenet, such as tezeta and bati; Mulatu laid those over jazz harmony and Latin American rhythms. After the coup of 1974 a curfew and censorship put an end to the nightlife. From 1997 the French label Buda Musique reissued the old recordings in the series Éthiopiques, and in 2005 the director Jim Jarmusch used Mulatu's music in the film Broken Flowers.

Listening

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  Yèkèrmo Sèw · Mulatu Astatke, 1969
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  Ere Mela Mela · Mahmoud Ahmed, 1975
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  Tizita · Hailu Mergia, 2018

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 3^NL Reader

See also

• Hailu Mergia
• Mahmoud Ahmed
• Hard bop
• Latin jazz
• Modal jazz