Abdullah Ibrahim

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark announces lineup of fall jazz concerts and events during November 9-21, 2023.

Mark Guiliana, Randy Weston, Herbie Hancock, Robert Glasper, Abdullah Ibrahim, and Kamasi Washington are the artists featured in this retrospective podcast celebrating the top Jazz Night In America and The Checkout productions over the years.

The first Take Five of 2022 has two piano legends (Abdullah Ibrahim, Fred Hersch), two R&B confabs (the MTO with Catherine Russell, MoonChild with Lalah Hathaway), and an ambitious tribute to the Borscht Belt (Sam Sadigursky).

“The purest thing between heaven and earth is love,” says Abdullah Ibrahim, “and sincerity is the gatekeeper.”This morsel of metaphysical insight —…

Along with Wadada Leo Smith’s salute to Rosa Parks, Wynton Marsalis’ soundtrack to Bolden, and Tom McDermott’s take on a Joplin rag.Linda May Han Oh,…

The National Endowment for the Arts honors the 2019 NEA Jazz Masters with a tribute concert tonight at 8 p.m.We'll host a live webcast from the John F.…

The National Endowment for the Arts inducts its 2019 Jazz Masters on April 15.In advance of the main event — a tribute concert at the Kennedy Center,…

The WBGO Joy of Jazz South African Adventure was one of my highlights of 2017. As soon as we arrived in Johannesburg on Sept. 28, our group of over 50…

Last year, The Checkout and Jazz Night In America attempted to make a little jazz history. We asked the legendary pianist Abdullah Ibrahim to reimagine,…

Hugh Masekela was an up-and-coming trumpeter, all of 20, when he took an overnight train from Johannesburg to Cape Town to meet a pianist everyone was…