81-year-old Ethio-jazz Godfather Mulatu Astatke's self-covers album Mulatu Plays Mulatu could easily have been an exercise in ego, a simple greatest-hits record, the sort of lazy compilation one expects from legacy artists in their later years. Instead, Astatke and his longtime touring band remade 11 of his favorite compositions, many of them relatively deep cuts, with new arrangements featuring a full panorama of Western and Ethiopian instruments.
Source: The FADER
