Abdullah Ibrahim
Year recorded Title Label Notes
1960 Jazz Epistle Verse 1 Continental As The Jazz Epistles ; sextet , with Kippie Moeketsi ( alto sax ) , Jonas Gwangwa ( trombone ) , Hugh Masekela ( trumpet ) , Johnny Gertze ( bass ) , Makaya Ntshoko ( drums )
1960 Dollar Brand Plays Sphere Jazz Continental Trio , with Johnny Gertze ( bass ) , Makaya Ntshoko ( drums )
1963 Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio Reprise Trio , with Johnny Gertze ( bass ) , Makaya Ntshoko ( drums )
1965 Reflections Black Lion Solo piano ; also released as This Is Dollar Brand
1965 Round Midnight at the Montmartre Black Lion Most tracks trio , with Johnny Gertze ( bass ) , Makaya Ntshoko ( drums ) ; two tracks solo piano
1965 The Dream Freedom Trio
1965 Anatomy of a South African Village Black Lion Trio , with Johnny Gertze ( bass ) , Makaya Ntshoko ( drums )
1965 Soweto Chiaroscuro Some tracks septet ; some tracks quartet
1965* Capetown Fringe Chiaroscuro Quintet , with Basil Coetzee ( tenor sax ) , Robbie Jansen ( alto sax ) , Paul Michaels ( bass ) , Monty Weber ( drums )
1968 Confluence Freedom With Gato Barbieri ; released 1974 ; also released as Hamba Khale !
1969 African Sketchbook Enja Most tracks solo piano ; one track solo flute
1969 African Piano JAPO Solo piano ; in concert ; released 1973
1970 African Sun Spectator
1971 Peace
1971 Dollar Brand Trio with Kippie Moketsi
1972 Ancient Africa JAPO Mostly solo piano ; one part solo flute ; in concert ; released 1974
1973 African Portraits Sackville Solo piano
1973 Sangoma Sackville Solo piano
1973 Memories Philips Solo piano
1973 African Space Program Enja With Hamiet Bluiett ( baritone sax ) , Roland Alexander ( tenor sax , harmonica ) , John Stubblefield ( tenor sax ) , Sonny Fortune and Carlos Ward ( alto sax , flute ) , Cecil Bridgewater , Enrico Rava and Charles Sullivan ( trumpet ) , Kiani Zawadi ( trombone ) , Cecil McBee ( bass ) , Roy Brooks ( percussion )
Discography -- As leader/co-leader
Abdullah Ibrahim (born Adolph Johannes Brand on 9 October 1934 and formerly known as Dollar Brand) 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.