Abdullah came up with a strong love of Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, which shows all over the beautiful jazz of this album. Apparently he was also heavily influenced by the traditional music of his South African homeland, though if I'm honest, I hear that less in the music. What I do hear is some interesting, peppy, and at times propulsive jazz
Ibrahim had departed South Africa years earlier, leaving apartheid behind him, but that system of segregation was beginning to be challenged. Ibrahim saw himself as building up a musical language that reflected all of this.
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