Kaya 959

The tribute to Abdullah Ibrahim by one of his mentees is an incredible opportunity to just hear a different side of this wonderful musician. Carl Shepherd speaks to us about this tribute. So the name Talhuri, I first noticed on Abdullah Ibrahim's album that was released in 1973 on NEA Records called African Sketchbook, is a solo piano album of his that I've been listening to.

To for the last 20 years, and it's an album that's inspired my own playing tremendously. And actually, the billing on the album was actually Dollar Khauri Brand. He was still Dollar Brand at that time. And the album name was African Sketchbook. And so I sort of thought about that, thought about the name.

And thought about how it speaks to Abdul Ibrahim's consciousness of the First Nation people of southern Africa, the Khoi and the Sun, because Khawuri is from the Nama language or the Kham language or anything like that. We know that he spent time with those people in the Kalaari. He spoke a lot about the concepts and philosophies.

Of the transdance fire and that culture of people. So it's always resonated with me, this name Kauri. And so I thought it's apt to name this trio that we put together to honor Abdul Ibrahim, the Kauri trio, as a homage and a little nod to this name that he gave himself.

On that album and on a few other albums around that time, early 70s. In fact, the album was recorded in 1969 and released in 1973. So it was around that time of his life before he became publicly known as Abdullah Ibrahim with his conversion to Islam. So when the idea came, and you know, we got the sad news of Abdullah Ibrahim's passing.