His legendary jazz fused American style and Cuban rhythms with East Africa’s pentatonic scales. Now, at age 82, Mulatu ...

With organizers projecting more than 3,000 attendees each day, the three-day festival underscores Addis Ababa’s growing stature within the global jazz conversation. Long regarded as the birthplace of ...

Interview - Zena is a London-born duo composed of Kokoroko keyboardist Yohan Kebede and bassist Menelik. Informed by their shared Ethiopian heritage, they mix traditional Ethiopian sounds with an ...

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 ...

The golden age of Ethiopian soul music kicked off in the mid '60s with a flurry of horns, eerie keyboards, and whip-crack drumming. Woven through the groove was the strained, conflicted voice of ...

I’m a little high on spice and the pulsating rhythms of Ethiopian music as I tear off pieces of injera, a light, crepe-like sourdough flatbread. It’s a special sneak preview night at Addis Ethiopian ...