Cape Town Revisited

Artist: Abdullah Ibrahim
Label: Tip Toe
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 063757783626
EAN: 0063757783626
ASIN: B00002DFOQ

Release Date: 2000-07-11

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Listmania:

Trio Transition (Trios of Our Time) Not In Order
From the Townships: South African Standouts

Tracks:

Damara Blue
Someday Soon Sweet Samba
Cape Town To Congo Square: 1st Movement: African Street Parade
Cape Town To Congo Square: 2nd Movement: District Six Carnival
Song For Sathima
Cape Town To Congo Square: 3rd Movement: Too-Kah
Tintinyana
Tuang Guru
Eleventh Hour
Water From An Ancient Well
Tsakwe - Royal Blue
Soweto
The Mountain
The Wedding
Barakaat (The Blessing)

Customer Reviews:

Breathtaking!........2001-08-12

Ibrahim Caresses the piano with such nuance - blessed with his midas touch.

African Jazz For All Nations.......2000-11-03

Abdullah Ibrahim's "Cape Town Revisited" captures the pianist's trio perfroming live at the Spier Estate in Capetown, South Africa, joined on three tracks by trumpeter Feya Faku. Pertinent background is that Mr. Ibrahim, born in South Africa but in self-imposed exile during apartheid, began performing in his homeland again during the 1990's. It is in this context that the CD is aptly titled "Cape Town Revisited". The joy of his homecoming is admixed throughout this CD with Mr. Ibrahim's influences from living abroad, notably that of his early mentor, Duke Ellington. There are classic, sweet jazz melodies, such as "Someday Soon Sweet Samba" pulsing with township rhythms below the melody. The three-part suite "Cape Town To Congo Square", strangely interrupted between the second and third movenmment by another track, nevertheless evokes the African cultural landscape within an easily recognizable jazz idiom that knows no boundaries. Mr. Faku's contributions add variety to the trio sound, and by the time we reach the stunning gracenotes of the last three trio only tracks, culminating with "Barakaat (The Blessing) we know that we have been blessed indeed to glimpse the musical and cultural wisdom of this stellar artist.

While I overall prefer Mr. Ibrahim's larger ensemble work (see my review of his "Voices of Africa" CD) and thus have given this CD 4 stars only, it is a wonderful, intimate listening experience that allows one to travel musically to other lands yet still feel the immediacy and familiarity of timeless, cross-cultural art. "Cape Town Revisitied" is music that people of all nations can cherish.

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