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Black Voices

Black Voices

By Tony Allen

Label: Comet Records
Released: 2000

Tony Allen: Black Voices

by Derrick A. Smith
June 1, 2000

Nigerian bandleader and Afro-Beat inventor Fela Kuti was legendarily self-assured. This ego manifested itself in his PR ploys, in his battles - sometimes physical - with the agents of the country’s military government, in his insistence on beginning a sax or keyboard solo seemingly unprepared, and in the fact that on most of his classic recordings ...

Tony Allen: Black Voices

by Derrick A. Smith
June 1, 2000

Nigerian bandleader and Afro-Beat inventor Fela Kuti was legendarily self-assured. This ego manifested itself in his PR ploys, in his battles - sometimes physical - with the agents of the country’s military government, in his insistence on beginning a sax or keyboard solo seemingly unprepared, and in the fact that on most of his classic recordings ...