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Article: Album Review

Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party (Deluxe Edition)

Read "African Party (Deluxe Edition)" reviewed by Tony Poole

by Tony Poole
January 28, 2025

George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the world and exposed him to a variety of musical styles and percussion techniques. After World War II, he settled in London, where he ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Trombonist-Composer Naomi Moon Siegel

by AAJ Staff
November 8, 2024

An award-winning trombonist, improviser, composer and educator, Naomi Moon Siegel is committed to creating a positive, transformative music culture beyond conventional genre norms. She has been an innovative performer and recording artist since graduating from Oberlin Conservatory in 2006. Siegel kicked off her professional career on the West Coast in Oakland, California, and came of age ...

Article: Album Review

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story

by Chris May
May 31, 2024

One of the minor but intriguing mysteries of modern culture is why the trombone is commonplace in African American music yet only rarely heard in Africa itself. Since its earliest days, jazz in the US has featured the trombone, as did ska in Jamaica. In analog-age samba and bossa nova in Brazil, the instrument was practically ...

Article: Book Review

Moving Music: The Memoirs Of Rikki Stein

by Chris May
May 11, 2024

Moving Music: The Memoirs Of Rikki Stein Rikki Stein 304 Pages ISBN: 9781739103095 Wordville Press2024 The autobiography of Rikki Stein--longtime friend and manager of Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti, and a key player in the historic meeting between Ornette Coleman and the Master Musicians of Joujouka, among much, much ...

News: Event

Fela Kuti MFM Zoom Roundtable Discussion Set For April 19, 2024

April 13, 2024

MFM Presents “Music Is Essential," a Zoom Roundtable Discussion on the Legacy and Impact of Fela Kuti’s Music and Activism on the African Continent, with Special guests who knew or worked with the godfather of Afrobeat. Date: Friday, April 19, 2024—Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m. ET Venue: ZOOM—Ticket: $5 (up to 100 for sale. Save your seat ...

Article: Album Review

London Afrobeat Collective: Esengo

by Chris May
February 17, 2024

Back in the day, when Fela Kuti invented Afrobeat--and yes, unlike practically every other music to emerge in the 20th century, Afrobeat was indeed the creation of one person--the music served two functions: to champion the rights and aspirations of post-colonial Black Africans, particularly those at the bottom of the pyramid, and to provide a soundtrack ...

Album

Army Arrangement

By Fela Kuti

Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: Army Arrangement; Government Chicken Boy.

Album

Yellow Fever

By Fela Kuti

Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2023
Track listing: Yellow Fever; Na Poi.

Album

Coffin For Head Of State

By Fela Kuti

Label: Partisan / Knitting Factory
Released: 2021
Track listing: Coffin For Head Of State.

Article: Profile

Roy Ayers: A Retrospective

by Jason Elias
November 20, 2023

Vibraphonist, singer and producer Roy Ayers is a master of many musical styles and genres, from acid-jazz, jazz-funk to romantic ballads and dance tracks. While many of his contemporaries seemed to fail when they tried different sounds, Ayers always made sure a certain of musicality and identity was apparent in all of his work.