In the mid-1970s, Abdullah Ibrahim returned to South Africa to record a series of landmark albums on the label The Sun, accompanied by members of his first South African jazz group and visiting African-American musicians. His piano playing is a continuous, rhythmic, hypnotic chant whose melodies are inspired by the religious psalms of his childhood.

In 1981, his solo piano recital at the open-air festival African Roots began with a psalm spoken and sung with his hand resting on his right ear. Forty years later, at the JazzOnze+ festival, Abdullah Ibrahim returns for a magnificent solo piano recital, this time ending with a psalm spoken and sung, hand on ear.

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