Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well Album

Tracklist

1	Mandela	4:59
2	Water From An Ancient Well	11:59
3	The Wedding	2:41
4	The Mountain	3:21
5	Tuang Guru	5:26
6	Manenberg Revisited	6:11
7	Song For Santhima	6:12
8	Sameeda	5:56

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BKH 50207 CD	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water From An Ancient Well ‎(CD, Album)	BlackHawk Records	BKH 50207 CD	Europe	1986
BKH 502-2	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water From An Ancient Well ‎(CD)	Blackhawk Records	BKH 502-2	US	1987
BKH 50207	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water From An Ancient Well ‎(Cass, Album)	BlackHawk Records	BKH 50207	US	1986
CD 888812 2, 888812 2	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water From An Ancient Well ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Enja Records, Tiptoe	CD 888812 2, 888812 2	Germany	1992
TIP-888812	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water From An Ancient Well ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Tiptoe, Enja Records	TIP-888812	Germany	Unknown

Credits

• Double Bass – David Williams
• Drums – Ben Riley
• Piano, Composed By – Abdullah Ibrahim
• Producer – Sathima Bea Benjamin
• Saxophone – Charles Davis , Ricky Ford
• Saxophone, Flute – Carlos Ward
• Trombone – Dick Griffin

Notes

Recorded at The Van Gelder Recording Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, October 1985.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 087698500210

Companies

• Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Short intro

Water from an Ancient Well is a jazz album by South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim that was first released in 1986. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. All tracks written by Ibrahim. Mandela - 4:58. Song for Sathima - 6:10. Mannenberg Revisited Cape Town Fringe - 6:09. Tuang Guru - 5:24. Water from an Ancient Well - 11:55. The Wedding - 2:38. The Mountain - 3:19. Sameeda - 5:56. Abdullah Ibrahim piano. Carlos Ward alto flute. Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya - Water from an Ancient World fragm. Songs in album Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well 1985. Abdullah Ibrahim - Mandela. Abdullah Ibrahim - Song For Sathima. Abdullah Ibrahim - Manenberg Revisited. Abdullah Ibrahim - Tuang Guru. Abdullah Ibrahim - Water From An Ancient Well. Abdullah Ibrahim - The Wedding. Listen free to Abdullah Ibrahim Water From An Ancient Well Mandela, Song For Sathima and more. 8 tracks 40:22. Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has celebrated his South African heritage in music ever since being forced to emigrate from his homeland in the early '60s. Considering that this CD was recorded in Cape Town, South Africa in 1997 and that apartheid is a thing of the past, it is not surprising that Ibrahim's music is even happier than usual. Water From An Ancient Well - Abdullah Ibrahim Dollar Brand 11:58. Abdullah Ibrahim Mandela at the tabernacle 5:00. Preview, buy, and download songs from the album Water from an Ancient Well, including Mandela, Song for Sathima, Manenberg Revisited, and many more. Buy the album for . Songs start at . Shades of Ellington, Monk, Coltrane, and South Africa with Ibrahim's masterful piano playing and one of the best arranged jazz ensembles I've ever heard. I'm a major jazz fan with many albums that appear on a lot of greatest jazz lists by fans and critics. Somehow this remarkable album doesn't show up on many of those greatest jazz lists, but it should. I've had this album for a little more than a month and it's quickly becoming one of my all time favorites. Abdullah Ibrahim has a conversation with Atiyyah Khan about his ikigai, a Japanese term that describes the thing you want to do when you wake up in the morning. All these years later, it's still music. Abdullah Ibrahim has studied Japanese martial arts for the last 50 years. Here pictured in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1974. Photo by Ib SkovgaardJP Jazz ArchiveGetty Images. For 50 years, Abdullah Ibrahim has been a dedicated student of Japanese martial arts. Music is his ikigai, his purpose. The pianist likens his study of budo to the way improvisation works when playing music. Abdullah Ibrahim. Mandela, 04:59. Manenberg Revisited, 06:11. Deep Purple Smoke On the Water. AlexFM Radiostation. Oasis Don't Look Back In Anger. Album 1986. Filed under African Fusion By ABDULLAH IBRAHIM DOLLAR BRAND. 1 Mandela 4:59 2 Song For Santhima 6:12 3 Manenberg Revisited 6:11 4 Tuang Guru 5:26 5 Water From An Ancient Well 11:59 6 The Wedding 2:41 7 The Mountain 3:21 8 Sameeda 5:56. Double Bass David Williams Drums Ben Riley Piano Abdullah Ibrahim Saxophone Charles Davis , Ricky Ford Saxophone, Flute Carlos Ward Trombone Dick Griffin