Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger known as the father of ethno-jazz. He was born on December 19, 1943 in western Ethiopia in the large city of Jimma. He studied music in London, where he came in the late 1950s, then in New York and Boston. In his work, he immediately began to try to combine jazz and Latin music with traditional Ethiopian motifs. He led his own band, which played vibraphone and conga drums, as well as other instruments, keyboards and drums, and worked hard and
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Mulatu Astatke is an Ethiopian musician and arranger known as the father of ethno-jazz.
He was born on December 19, 1943 in western Ethiopia in the large city of Jimma. He studied music in London, where he came in the late 1950s, then in New York and Boston. In his work, he immediately began to try to combine jazz and Latin music with traditional Ethiopian motifs.
He led his own band, which played vibraphone and conga drums, as well as other instruments, keyboards and drums, and worked hard and fruitfully, becoming famous in his native Ethiopia and beyond. Mulat's first round of popularity came in the late 1960s and 1970s, when he toured with some of America's most prominent musicians, including "a target=_blank href="https://kinonavigator.ru/name/24132419." In the 1980s, he focused on his career in Ethiopia, and in the late 1990s, thanks to the release of his recordings in the West, Astake's name returned to the world music scene and is today considered the founder of the Ethiopian Jazz style.