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Article: Live Review

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 at SFJazz, San Francisco

Read "Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 at SFJazz, San Francisco" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser


Seun Kuti and Egypt 80SFJazz San Francisco, California June 19, 2014 A popular aphorism maintains that “the apple never falls fall from the tree." That certainly holds true for Seun Kuti, the son of the legendary saxophonist, songwriter, social activist and political rebel Fela Kuti. The roots run deep. While apples ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Seun Kuti and Egypt 80: Spring U.S. Tour

NEW TOUR INCLUDES APPEARANCES AT COACHELLA, SXSW, NOLA JAZZ AND MORE After a whirlwind summer 2011 tour, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 return this spring on a mammoth cross country tour—taking in 30+ dates across the breadth and width of the US—distinguished by the variety of venues and events in the tour schedule, with shows in ...

Album

Rise

Label: Because Music
Released: 2011

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Article: Live Review

Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 6-9, 2011

Read "Kongsberg Jazz Festival, July 6-9, 2011" reviewed by Josef Woodard


Kongsberg Jazz FestivalKongsberg, NorwayJuly 6-9, 2011 By now, it's a self-evident truth that Norway has become something of a hot spot on the global jazz map... again. This is hardly a late-breaking news sensation, given the long arc of jazz lore and fanaticism and support systems in place in this Scandinavian corner, ...

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News: Interview

The Rise of Seun Kuti

The Rise of Seun Kuti

By Dennis Cook Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 begin their U.S. tour today, July 13, in Solano Beach, CA. Find the full itinerary here. In many ways it does not that Seun Kuti is the youngest son of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti. Such is Seun's naked passion, political uprightness, musical swing and humanitarian spirit that he'd ...

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 18 - Seun Kuti talks about From Africa With Fury: Rise

Read "Part 18 - Seun Kuti talks about From Africa With Fury: Rise" reviewed by Chris May


Seun Kuti's From Africa With Fury: Rise, the follow-up to the ferocious Many Things (Tot Au Tard, 2008), is under starter's orders--and Afrobeat Diaries' sneak preview attests that it's a monster, a stone delight of epic proportions. Produced by Brian Eno with John Reynolds and Kuti, with additional input from dub wizard Godwin ...

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Many Things

Label: Tot ou Tard
Released: 2008
Track listing: Think Afrika; Don't Give That Shit To Me; Many Things; Fire Dance; Mosquito Song; Na Oil; African Problems.

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Article: Album Review

Seun Kuti and Fela's Egypt 80: Many Things

Read "Many Things" reviewed by Chris May


Few musical styles have been so completely defined by their originator as Afrobeat has been by the Nigerian singer, songwriter, band leader, saxophonist, organist, club and record company operator, polemicist and agitator, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Since Kuti's death in 1997, few musician's other than Kuti's drummer in Afrika 70, Tony Allen, have stepped forward convincingly to ...


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