If last year’s joyous Mulatu Astatke album Sketches of Ethiopia with its paean to the griot-like azmari, and pulsating “Coptic modal” improvising from Mulatu’s Step Ahead band whetted your appetite for the Addis sound then Radio 4 Courtney Pine-presented radio documentary Swinging Addis is a must. Courtney in Ethiopia meets 1960s jazz veterans Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete and a hot new pianist from the new Addis scene. It’s on Radio 4 at half past eleven this morning; and repeated on Sunday at half past one in the afternoon_.

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