Born in Ethiopia but trained in the cosmopolitan west—London, New York and Boston where he studied at Berklee—Mulatu Astatke found a serpentine, shimmery groove that combined the exotic sounds of Addis Ababa with the swagger and swing of Latin jazz and American funk and soul. Now in his eighties, Astatke recorded Mulatu Plays Mulatu with LA-based producer and ethnomusicologist Dexter Story and contemporary artists including Carlos Niño and Kibrom Birhane . . .
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