How do you recognize the concert of a master?
The encores are listened to religiously, to retain it a little longer.
Tuesday evening, Abdullah Ibrahim left the stage with small steps, with broad gestures of thanks, without affection.
The man plays as he is.
His large shoulders overhanging the keyboard, the 87-year-old South African musician revealed at the Jazz à la Villette festival the texts of his latest album
Solotude
, inspired as its title suggests and as its melodies suggest by long hours of solitude. .
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Phrases repeat themselves, both rich and austere, until graceful chord resolutions.
This pianist gives the feeling of not yielding to any artifice.
Result, one imagines, of his great experience.
Duke Ellington took him under his wing in the 1960s (he paid tribute to him with
Ode to Duke
in 1974), John Coltrane (his son Ravi reinterprets his father's repertoire this Sunday at La Villette) or drummer Max Roach were his playing partners…
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