Rachel P. Doyle in the NYTimes:
On a recent Sunday evening, a stylish audience in their 20s packed Mama's Kitchen, a wood-and-glass lounge on the fourth floor of an otherwise closed shopping center near the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. They were there to hear an adventurous young pianist, Samuel Yirga, as he careened between free jazz, études, R&B and the popular local style known as Ethio-jazz, a bewitching genre that fuses jazz with traditional Ethiopian musicAn emergent scene:
...Mama's Kitchen is one of several venues featuring different jazz styles -- from swing to acoustic, instrumental to free jazz -- that have sprung up in the Ethiopian capital in recent years. The resurgent music scene is far from the only change occurring in this frenetic city of nearly four million.Moer here
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