Mulatu Astatke live in concert.
ON TOUR

Mulatu Astatke

11
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

81
%
Based on 
11
critic concert
reviews
LAST 12 MONTHS RATING  
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Real Live Certified  

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Critic Consensus

Mulatu Astatke is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 11 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Mulatu Astatke is rated as an impressive live performer, with enjoyable shows overall. Mulatu Astatke concert reviews describe live shows and performances as mysterious, playful, seductive, innovative, genuine, and compelling.

ON TOUR

Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, United States (June 15); 立川ステージガーデン, 東京都立川市, Japan (July 6); Kobetamendi, Bilbao, Spain (July 11)

Latest release

Afro-Latin Soul Vol. 2 (February 15, 2023)

artist info

GENRE
jazz
ORIGIN
Jimma, Ethiopia (12/19/1943) (12/19/1943)
BIO
Mulatu Astatke (born on December 19, 1943; surname sometimes spelled Astatqe on French-language releases: Mulatu Astatqe) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger best known as the father of Ethio-jazz.
HAS PERFORMED with
The Heliocentrics

CRITIC concert REVIEWS

Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

March 4, 2024
60
%
Mulatu Astatke Live In Concert In Sweden

Undertoner (Denmark)

July 7, 2023
58
%
Mulatu Astatke Live In Concert In Denmark

The Arts Desk (UK)

April 8, 2017
80
%
He is a one-off purveyor of what Brian Eno called “jazz from another planet”, smoky, mysterious and playful.

The Guardian (UK)

February 2, 2016
100
%
The Ethiopian multi-instrumentalist balances a songwriter’s seductiveness with a borderless vision and a relaxed faith in left-field improvisers.

Rhythm Passport (UK)

February 1, 2016
%
However, this is a recent event in his fifty-year career, and his many fans have always considered him to be something special.

The Arts Desk (UK)

September 14, 2014
100
%
While Astatke values the back catalogue (he played on the same bill as Duke Ellington in front of Haile Selassie in the early 1970s) he has really seized the opportunity that opened up for him to create some genuinely terrific new music.

musicOMH (UK)

October 9, 2013
80
%
Now 70 the ‘father of Ethio-jazz’ studied music in the UK and US as a young man in the ’60s introducing Western and Latin instruments and musical styles into his native Ethiopian music to form a fascinating hybrid.

Past critic reviews published in

New Zealand Herald (New Zealand), Soundvenue (Denmark)

IMAGE CREDIT

Kurt Jansson [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons