South African jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim plays the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, November 19

Pianist-composer is joined by Cleave Guyton on flute, piccolo, and saxophone, plus Noah Jackson on bass and cello

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Abdullah Ibrahim.

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC announces the return of jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim in a concert on November 19 at 7 pm.

Ibrahim is a South African jazz pianist, composer, improviser, and anti-Apartheid activist. Born Adolph Johannes Brand in 1934 and raised in the Kensington suburb of Cape Town, Ibrahim’s musicality found a voice at an early age, leading him to tour with local jazz bands.

In the early 1960s Ibrahim left South Africa for Zurich, the start of a self-imposed exile that saw a conversion to Islam and would eventually take him to New York. His new sound, now known as Cape Jazz, drew from African Methodist church hymns, dancehalls, South African marabi, and the American jazz of Duke Ellington.

For this concert, Ibrahim performs in a trio with Cleave Guyton on flute, piccolo, and saxophone, and Noah Jackson playing bass and cello.

Tickets to the concert are available here.

Post sponsored by Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.