Ethiopia has a long tradition of jazz going back to the 1920s when Armenian orphans from the massacres in Turkey formed the country’s first official orchestra. American jazz great, Duke Ellington, ...
Addis Acoustic Project, AAP for short, is the three-year-old brainchild of composer and guitarist Girum Mezmur. This acoustic band has revitalised songs from Ethiopia’s 50s and 60s repertoire, by ...
The Addis Acoustic Project is an ambitious group trying to breathe new life into Ethiopian jazz tunes that hark back to the Fifties. The annual Womex gathering of music professionals invited the ...