Interview
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Reviews October 6, 2011
George Kyrillos leads David Ensemble, a group specializing in performing hymns from the liturgy of the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt, and in composing music for the Psamls of David. He is a scholar, an accomplished musician, and a fine singer. He also curates a fantastic website, http://www.davidensemble.com/, rich in audio and video. Visit the Multimedia section there to hear and download music. Afropop’s Banning Eyre visited George at his home in the Maadi neighborhood of Cairo in August, 2011. They spoke without an interpreter, in English—not a language George speaks often, but he did well. Here’s an edited transcript of their conversation.
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South African Jazz scholar Carol Mullen talks about jazz in apartheid South Africa.
Reviews July 13, 2011
Sathima Bea Benjamin recorded the first jazz record ever recorded in Africa. Here, she sits down with Afropop's Simon Rentner to discuss South Africa, Duke Ellington, and the presence of jazz in the world.
