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Justin Thurgur

Dele Sosimi & Friends At Ronnie Scott's Club

by Chris May
June 15, 2023

Dele Sosimi & Friends Ronnie Scott's Club London June 11, 2023 Born in London but brought up in Lagos, keyboard player Dele Sosimi was a child prodigy who joined Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 the moment he left secondary school in 1979. Sosimi had by that time been rehearsing with Egypt ...

Many Faces

By Justin Thurgur

Label: Funkiwala
Released: 2022
Track listing: Be A Little Wiser; The Reeducation Of Mr Otheralisation; How It Is; Woman; The Reality Of Reality; Iwa Re Re.

Justin Thurgur: Many Faces

by Chris May
May 26, 2022

London-based trombonist Justin Thurgur is at home in several traditions. He plays contemporary English folk music with the band Bellowhead and Afrobeat with the Afrobeat Orchestra, the ensemble led by keyboard player Dele Sosimi, a childhood protégé of Fela Kuti, who has done more than any other musician to keep the Afrobeat flame alight in Britain. ...

Lokkhi Terra meets Dele Sosimi: Cubafrobeat

by Chris May
August 12, 2018

A younger version of London's Grand Union Orchestra, founded by world-jazz pioneer Tony Haynes in 1982, Lokkhi Terra was put together by keyboard player Kishon Khan in 2005. Both ensembles have made a specialism of jazz / South Asian fusion, with Lokkhi Terra also giving as much attention to music from Cuba, where Bangladeshi-born, London-based Khan ...