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 Dollar Brand Songs
Popular or famous Dollar Brand music songs: Stride, Dream, Tintiyana, Resolution, On the Banks of Allen Waters, Which Way, Little Niles, Obluegato, Mamma. More music songs Knight's Night, Pye R Squared, Airolo Blue, Whoza Mtwana, Kippi, Honey, Homecoming Song, Moniebah, Anthem for the New Nations. More music songs Ubu Suku, Wedding. See All Songs
Dollar Brand Biography
Abdullah Ibrahim is a South African pianist who fully incorporates the sound of his spiritual heritage into a jazz context. Inspired greatly by Duke Ellington (who sponsored his first session in 1963), he became dedicated to the transformative power of jazz. He has recorded consistently potent and affecting work in the decades since, using African and American performers together. (His original name before converting to Islam, Artist, came from American soldiers, from whom he would constantly ask to buy jazz records).
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Abdullah Ibrahim | Ekaya, WDR Big Band, Dollar Brand Duo, Marcus McLaurine, Munich Radio Symphony, Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Buddy Tate | | Dollar Brand | Abdullah Ibrahim, Dollar Brand Duo, Archie Shepp, Gato Barbieri, Elvin Jones | | Archie Shepp | John Coltrane, John Coltrane Quartet, Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Siegfried Kessler, Joachim Kuhn, Maxwell Price |
Worked With
Abdullah Ibrahim, Archie Shepp, Dollar Brand Duo
Contemporaries
Archie Shepp, Tito Puente, Don Cherry (Trumpet), Elvin Jones, Mongo Santamaría, Poncho Sanchez, Hugh Masekela, Chucho Valdés, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Willie Bobo, Randy Weston, Trilok Gurtu, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Kevyn Lettau, Cecil McBee
Followers
D.D. Jackson, Talib Qadir Kibwe
Influences
Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans (Piano), Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, Bud Powell, Ahmad Jamal
More Music Artists
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