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Ikarai - Muhammad at EFG London Jazz Festival at Vortex Jazz Club

Courtesy of Paul Walker | Posted on July 18, 2019

Where

Vortex Jazz Club
EFG London Jazz Festival

11 Gillett Street
London
Map
020 7254 4097

When

Fri, November 15, 2019
19:45

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About

A boxing ring is set on stage. Six musicians are set in the middle. Live audio samples are used. Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali takes you through his mind as I K A R A I sets his most legendary fight to music. Our new concert, MUHAMMAD, is a full-length musical telling of Ali’s movements and thoughts in the 1974 world heavyweight championship fight he ultimately won.

But Ali’s biggest fights were outside the ring. As a civil rights activist, a poet, storyteller and a devout Muslim, his social struggles became a part of his identity as a famous sportsman.

MUHAMMAD gives a sound to physical and social confrontations and is an ode to the greatest boxer of all time....

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