Fela Kuti News

FILTER is pulling out all the stops to celebrate the end of 2009. Every day until the end of the month, we are presenting you with Top 10 lists of the best albums of 2009 from guest artists.

Shortly after recreating the sonic spectacle of Fela Kuti 's amazing Afrika 70 and 80 bands onstage at the Eugene O'Neill Theater , the Afrobeat collective will jet home to Williamsburg and create a Shrine of their own.

There are a few different reasons why you should be excited about the just announced King Sunny Ade concert at the Echoplex on Friday, May 7, which Jason Bentley scooped and announced on Morning Becomes Eclectic this morning.

Over a hundred years ago, Egyptologists, chief among them Cheikh Anta Diop, suggested that there was only one race: The Human Race.

NEW MUSICAL BASED ON THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF REVOLUTIONARY AFRICAN COMPOSER & PERFORMER FELA ANIKULAPO-KUTI FELA! MARKS THE FIRST FORAY INTO BROADWAY FOR THESE ENTERTAINMENT ICONS THE RE-RELEASE FOR "THE BEST OF THE BLACK PRESIDENT" IS OUT NOW ON KNITTING FACTORY RECORDS SAMPLE FULL FELA KUTI DISCOGRAPHY ON FELA.NET, EMBEDDABLE WIDGET WITH FREE ...

THE STEVE REID ENSEMBLE 9th November 2009 @ The Jazz Cafe 5, Parkway, Camden, London, NW1 7PG 14 from seetickets.co.uk Doors: 7pm The Steve Reid Ensemble are set to play an exclusive London show at The Jazz Cafe on Monday 9th November.

Ripe for revival and just in time for FELA! , the Broadway musical, as well as the real-life black president, Fela Kuti was a legend in his own time -- the fact that he passed more than a dozen years ago seems surreal.

If Vermonters have learned anything about home-grown guitar star Nicholas Cassarino , it's that he's always got another sound up his sleeve.

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity Rising out of Winnipeg's booming jazz scene, twenty-five year old Keith Price and his quintet are exploring the interplay of 'spontaneous composition music' and seemingly incongruous 20th century styles.

A few choice links for your listening pleasure: KUSF: WAKE THE TOWN The streaming audio link for last Thursday night's Wake The Town program on KUSF.

It's not every day that an Afrobeat band comes to St. Lawrence County. It's unheard of that the band's frontman is from St.

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity The Stone presents A Very Special 'Double" CD Release Pereformance!! On Ka'a Davis with the Famous Original Djuke Music Players Friday Midnight October 23rd 'On Ka'a Davis and his band of musical magicians!!" A Special Midnight Concert to celebrate On's two new releases on Live Wired and Tzadik.

In Chicago's jazz scene, drummer/composer/producer Ted Sirota is perhaps best known for his extensive work with guitarist Jeff Parker and for leading his avant-garde/post-bop band the Rebel Souls.

Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen "Selfish Gene" The musical chameleon known as Jimi Tenor has paired up with Fela Kuti's oft-remixed former drummer Tony Allen for a quirky, slow-grooving take on the afro-jazz sound that Allen is most known for.

To call this Rebel Souls disc ambitious is not an overstatement, and to label drummer Ted Sirota and company bold, does not unnecessarily over-dramatize their mission.

Even before the Gloved One's death, it had been planned: esteemed, talented local jazz pianist Ben Darwish was to inaugurate an Afrobeat Tribute to Michael Jackson for PICA's TBA Festival , making over MJ's works in the style of Fela Kuti, Afrobeat's founder.A And well, it was difficult at first to figure out what, about this, was culturally icky, ...

Not really understanding the words, Ngaujah thought 'International Thief Thief' just seemed catchy, but when his father explained that the song's title referred to ITT, the telecommunications giant, he listened again to Fela's purring patois and understood.

Not really understanding the words, Ngaujah thought 'International Thief Thief' just seemed catchy, but when his father explained that the song's title referred to ITT, the telecommunications giant, he listened again to Fela's purring patois and understood.

Not really understanding the words, Ngaujah thought 'International Thief Thief' just seemed catchy, but when his father explained that the song's title referred to ITT, the telecommunications giant, he listened again to Fela's purring patois and understood.

Chicago-via-Ann Arbor septet NOMO slung out their American afrobeat to a thin Bottletree crowd Thursday night, tying together tunes from albums Ghost Rock and New Tones before remembering that they forgot to play songs from their new album near the end of the set.