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Mar 3, 2016 · Ibrahim, who was born in a suburb of Cape Town in 1934, was 14 when the apartheid regime formalised the oppression of black South Africans, so one imagines that experience had a profound...
Jun 30, 2019 · Ibrahim's group, The Jazz Epistles became the first black South African group to record a full-length jazz album. As Ibrahim describes the oppressive segregationist climate of the time, and...
Dec 8, 2001 · Since he first fled South Africa in 1962, Ibrahim's increasingly spiritual and meditative jazz has won followers across Europe, the US and Japan and made him an icon at home. In the 50s as Dollar...
Jul 31, 2019 · He formed the Jazz Epistles in the late 1950s, with the soon-to-be-famous Hugh Masekela on trumpet and Kippie Moeketsi on saxophone. The Epistles turned around bebop ideas, giving them a...
Oct 13, 2017 · Ibrahim grew up in apartheid-era South Africa under the name Dollar Brand, one of the most prominent members of that country's first generation of jazz musicians.
Ibrahim’s music career really began to gain momentum in an area near Johannesburg known as Sophiatown. It was here that he formed the Jazz Epistles with several other South African jazz musicians. The Jazz Epistles quickly became one of the most influential jazz bands in South Africa.
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Ibrahim’s musical career is entrenched in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, and it is through this lens that I will examine his life and the role of jazz music in general. As early as the 1940s, jazz had emerged as the favored genre of the elite in South Africa.
