Abdullah Ibrahim obituary (opens in new tab)

South African jazz pianist, composer and improviser who cast a spell on audiences all over the worldThe pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, who aged 91, was among the first musicians from South Africa to achieve and sustain a major reputation with the international jazz audience. Listeners around the world, at first in small clubs and later in the grandest concert halls, fell under the spell of his compositions and improvisations, which took a sophisticated idiom originally created by the descendants o...