Guest Post: Gig Preview - Mulatu Astatke with the Black Jesus Experience [by Lucien Johnson]
Wellington Jazz Festival, Opera House, Friday June 10th
Returning to Ethiopia in the late 1960s after years abroad studying music at Berklee, and gigging and recording in New York, Mulatu Astatke discovered a flourishing music scene. It was the period of the final years of the Haile Selassie reign when the country’s capital was nicknamed “Swinging Addis”…
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