Mulatu Astatke New York - Addis - London - The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965 - 1975

Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of
Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album
series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly
reached a global audience and a new, younger generation of fans. In November of last year, he recorded an inspired
new album with London psych jazz band The Heliocentrics for Strut?s
?Inspiration Information? studio collaboration series. Now, Strut are proud to present, for the first time anywhere, the
definitive Mulatu career retrospective covering his landmark ?60s and ?70s recordings. Mulatu is a true pioneer of
African music. He was the first Ethiopian musician of his generation to travel extensively and to record abroad ? he
studied in the UK in Wales and at Trinity College Of Music in London, cutting his teeth on the buoyant London jazz
scene of the early ?60s. He became the first African student to attend Harvard and he lived and recorded in New York,
developing a unique sound that fused Western jazz with traditional Ethiopian melodies. Tracing the progression of his
Ethio jazz experiments with full access to all of the labels for whom he recorded,