enrich: (verb) improve or enhance the quality or value of. ARTIST.....: Abdullah Ibrahim TITLE......: The Balance LABEL......: Gearbox Records GENRE......: Jazz RIP DATE...: 2019-06-27 RETAIL DATE: 2019-06-28 RUNTIME....: 40:55 TRACKS.....: 10 SIZE.......: 94.74MB QUALITY....: 320kbps 44.1kHz CODEC......: MP3 (MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) ENCODER....: LAME URL........: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bp5k3tclikuirnacplqtjpgqaba Tracklist: ---------- 01. Dreamtime 04:05 02. Nisa 06:36 03. Jabula 03:43 04. Tuang Guru 05:11 05. Tonegawa 03:32 06. Song for Sathima 04:11 07. ZB2 02:04 08. Skippy 05:34 09. Devotion 02:55 10. The Balance 03:04 Notes: ------ Abdullah Ibrahim is a South African pianist and composer. His music reflects many of the musical influences of his childhood in the multicultural port areas of Cape Town, ranging from traditional African songs to the gospel of the AME Church and ragas, to more modern jazz and other Western styles. Ibrahim is considered the leading figure in the subgenre of Cape jazz. Within jazz, his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. He is known especially for "Mannenberg", a jazz piece that became a notable anti-apartheid anthem.During the apartheid era in the 1960s Ibrahim moved to New York City and, apart from a brief return to South Africa in the 1970s, remained in exile until the early '90s. Over the decades he has toured the world extensively, appearing at major venues either as a solo artist or playing with other renowned musicians, including Max Roach, Carlos Ward and Randy Weston, as well as collaborating with classical orchestras in Europe. With his wife, the jazz singer Sathima Bea Benjamin, he is father to the New York underground rapper Jean Grae, as well as to a son, Tsakwe.