Tag: Ethio-jazz
Ethio-jazz legend Mulatu Astatke still defines contemporary cool
Mulatu Astatke’s Mulatu Of Ethiopia from 1972, re-issued by Strut Records in 2017, captures a seminal moment in Ethiopian Jazz: THIS was a certain certain type of mood, a version at one time...
Arts Forecast: An Ethio-jazz marvel, a Tenderloin snapper, The Residents …
ARTS FORECAST All the talk this week will be about the San Francisco International Film Festival—check out this week's Screen Grabs film column for our preview—and I love that its...
Party Radar: Partycopia!
PARTY RADAR I'm knee-deep in counting thousands of votes for Best of the Bay -- it comes out next week, and I can't wait to see who wins all the...
Bursting into color
Sat/6 at Rickshaw Stop, Bay Area audiences will have a chance to hear the sound of an artist’s limitations falling away. Local favorite Meklit, who could previously have been...
A powerhouse tribute to essential ‘Miseducation’
ONSTAGE For six years, UnderCover Presents has shaped the fortunes of local musicians by staging epic one-night music festivals that are equal parts tribute and showcase. The idea is deceptively...
