Movies: Samuel Yirga

Twelve musicians who have never seen each other before, six Europeans and six Africans, in a house in Addis Ababa. Objective: to build a jazz concert in fifteen days . The way to get there is a fifteen-day coexistence that turns into a perennial jam ...

Modern Ethiopian big band orchestra music finds its unlikely origins in the royal adoption of 40 Jerusalem orphans of the Armenian Genocide by Emperor Haile Selassie. Their presence as the first royal imperial band would make way for the composed mus...