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From the legendary innovators Mulatu Astatke and Getatchew Mekuria to today's new generation of artists, this Rough Guide celebrates this burgeoning and most captivating of musical scenes.\u003cstrong\u003e'the most irresistible of Rough Guide's three Ethiopian comps...these selections suggest a confident modernity' A MINUS \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Robert Christgau, Vice\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"quote\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-notes\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem style=\"line-height: 1.3\"\u003e'Most of our Ethiopian music is based on five notes [pentatonic]. What I did was fuse the five tones with 12 tones. For many years I've been experimenting, and the more I do that the more complex it gets' Mulatu Astatke.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew Orleans is widely seen as the birthplace of jazz, where African slaves created groundbreaking music that fused elements from both Africa and Western traditions. By the twentieth century, jazz (and subsequent African-based musical forms including soul, funk, and Cuban rumba) travelled back across the Atlantic, first through recordings and later by artists on tour. There, African musicians immediately recognized the source roots, adapted some, altered others, and in the process, created entirely new musical forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Ethiopia, one of the first major musicians to lay the groundwork for Ethio-jazz was Nerses Nalbandian. His family escaped the Armenian genocide in Turkey, and settled in Ethiopia, where Nalbandi would become a band leader for many burgeoning Ethio-jazz musicians in the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLargely credited as being the greatest innovator of Ethio-jazz and exposing it to the world, Mulatu Astatke was born in 1943 in Jimma, Ethiopia. He travelled to Wales in the late 1950s to study engineering and to the chagrin of his parents, Astatke began to take an interest in music, first studying Western classical music before heading to Boston's Berklee College of Music to formally study jazz. It was there where Astatke took the fusion of traditional Ethiopian folk music and American jazz to a new level. Astatke explained its roots to the BBC, 'There are tribes in the south called the Derashe. They are surrounded by people who play five tone music but they have created a diminished 12-tone scale. Diminished scales are very important in jazz music especially for improvising. We learn how Charlie Parker came up with diminished scales as well as Claude Debussy and Bach. But always on my mind is the question of who were first with the scale, these people or the Derashe tribe?'\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.3\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1960s, Astatke decided to return to Ethiopia in order to cultivate Ethio-jazz in his homeland. At first, his vibraphone-based folk-jazz was considered quite unorthodox. However, within years, it transformed the capital, which came to be known as 'Swinging Addis'. The late 1960s and early 1970s were known as the 'golden age' in Addis Ababa, as countless jazz orchestras and ensembles thrived in the city, led by the innovations of Mulatu Astatke and saxophonist extraordinaire, Getatchew Mekuria. Addis Ababa was in full swing in 1973 when American jazz legend Duke Ellington came to town and performed together with Mulatu Astatke.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the Ethiopian jazz scene came crashing down the following year, in 1974, when a Soviet-backed military junta known as the Derg overthrew the government. The consequences of the coup and subsequent 'Red Terror' were profound. It left tens of thousands dead and military curfews virtually destroyed the thriving musical club scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, the Derg lost its backing and was subsequently overthrown. That decade saw a rebirth in Ethiopia. The budding democracy quickly became a thriving home of musical creativity. Ethiopian Jazz hit new global audiences through CD releases that included the Ethiopiques series and several Rough Guide albums. Astatke's captivating soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's film Broken Flowers in 2005 brought Ethio Jazz to even wider audiences. 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Enjoy this lovingly remastered selection of some of her most magnificent works.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"quote\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-notes\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith Piaf's life may have been tumultuous but her music stayed constantly brilliant throughout. Enjoy a fine selection of her classic tunes on this hand-picked Rough Guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album opens with the well-known and much loved tune, 'La Vie En Rose'. Edith's signature vibrato vocal soars across swooning strings and piano accompaniment. 'Adieu Mon Coeur' showcases Edith in a reflective almost bluesy mood. 'Jezebel' stands out in the collection as Edith channels a different vibe. Here thrusting guitar, strict rhythmic riffs, and a strong chest voice sound almost Flamenco-esque. 'Rien De Rien' features Edith in a playful bright style. Her off-hand sounding vocals are countered brilliantly by the flighty orchestra who periodically interject with razzing horns and tip-toeing woodwind. The second half of the song lilts into a dragging jazz swing that reeks of cheeky and ironic melodrama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Padam Padam' is a swirling sinister sounding ballad. 'Milord' tells the story of young poverty stricken girl who develops a crush on an upper-class gentleman. It was perhaps a subject that Edith felt some affinity with, having come from stark poverty herself. The light-hearted yet darkly spiced flavour of the song is expressed perfectly by Piaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album closes with Edith's heroic rendition of 'Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien'.  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He collaborated closely with some brilliant lyricists, most notably Alfredo Le Pera, with whom he would write magisterial tango songs such as 'El Dia Que Me Quieras', 'Por Una Cabeza' and 'Volver'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe back catalogue is as uneven as it is extensive. But the variation is less in musical and lyrical panache - Gardel and his various collaborators were Shakespearians, minting new sounds, coining new ideas - than in the quality of the recordings. Some of the original songs sound small, tinny and fragile, as if played by miniature musicians at the bottom of a gramophone funnel. Others are smoother, slicker, with big orchestras bouncing along and Gardel's voice revealed in all its range and richness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis selection of tracks is definitive with that caveat in mind. While I have allowed in a few scratchy classics, I have often opted for cleaner tracks that demonstrate the power and presence of Gardel's voice. 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In the autumn of 1948, Parker signed an exclusive contract with Norman Granz, which produced 'Just Friends', Parker's best-selling record ever. He continued to record superb pieces in the early 1950s, including 'Star Eyes', 'Lover Man' and 'Night And Day'. Despite his innovations though, his dependence on hard drugs and alcohol destroyed him. Worn out by years of abuse, he died on 12 March 1955, aged just 34.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharlie Parker was the supreme creative figure of his time and has remained a major influence on many jazz musicians since. 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The Sowetan spiritual Afro-jazz of Batsumi on the track 'Emampndweni' contributes to the narrative of music at home during the height of apartheid in the 1970s and similarly slots into the category of undeservedly lesser-known artistry. From a period considered by some as the golden era of South African Jazz, these artists and their compositions are pertinent and vital reminders of the intrinsic link between this music and the dismantling of oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most prominent figures of the South African jazz movement is the composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, whose career spans over 50 years, including a performance at Nelson Mandela's 1994 Presidential inauguration. Having played alongside Abdullah Ibrahim, the late Zim Ngqawana was a leading proponent of the exploration of free improvisation. While retaining South African jazz roots, Ngqawana incorporates traditional and avant-garde elements in his performances. 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But by the turn of the twentieth century, and largely in the city of New Orleans, the music now called “jazz” was starting to take recognisable shape. Central to its development was the red-light district in New Orleans known as Storyville which gave musicians the opportunity to perform in its many saloons, brothels, dance halls and cabarets. Among those were the great cornet virtuosi and bandleaders Freddie Keppard and Joseph “King” Oliver who experimented with music sometimes referred to as “jass”, reportedly after the jasmine perfume worn by prostitutes which was overtime corrupted into what is now known as “jazz”. Pianist Jelly Roll Morton was another who plied his trade in the most prestigious venues of Storyville, and along with his revolutionary style of playing was the first jazzman to write down his tunes, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first recognised jazz pioneer and bandleader was the cornetist Buddy Bolden who created an exciting and novel fusion of ragtime, black sacred music, marching band music and rural blues. From around 1900 to 1907, Bolden and his band achieved unrivalled popularity in New Orleans and are thought to have been the first to use brass instruments for playing the blues. Unfortunately, there are no surviving phonograph cylinder recordings of Buddy Bolden and he remains very much a mythical figure in jazz history. Remarkably, and somewhat ironically, the first band to make what is widely considered the first jazz record, ’Livery Stable Blues’ in 1917, was the all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band who played a lively, syncopated dance music rooted in the New Orleans tradition. They were also the first recorded band to use the word “jazz” (or “jass”) in their name. Their featured jazz standard ‘Tiger Rag’ was recorded in 1918, complete with cowbells and other dubious “novelty effects” and borrowed wholesale from the trailblazing African-American musicians of New Orleans. Despite this, the band became very influential in their own right and proved how jazz has always remained linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage. Even jazz’s greatest figure Louis Armstrong acknowledged the importance of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who were also an inspiration for many future artists including the white cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, undoubtedly one of the greatest soloists of the 1920s.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen Storyville was closed at midnight on November 12, 1917, this set the scene for a whole new phase of jazz evolution as musicians began to migrate upriver to the northern cities and in particular Chicago, a place full of night spots that needed bands and afforded a better standard of living. Effectively the closing of Storyville meant a dispersal of jazz, and Chicago, more than anywhere, met the requirements as its new home. 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