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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 17, 2010

May 25, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 9 6 Tom Harrell Roman Nights (HighNote) 207 150 +57 1 54 1 6 2 1 3 John Pizzarelli Rockin In Rhythm: A Tribute To Duke Ellington (Telarc) 166 211 -45 0 37 1 11 3 3 1 Catherine Russell Inside This Heart Of Mine ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: May 10, 2010

May 18, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 2 John Pizzarelli Rockin In Rhythm: A Tribute To Duke Ellington (Telarc) 211 206 +5 2 47 1 10 2 2 24 Trombone Shorty Backatown (Verve Forecast) 194 273 -79 3 60 2 4 3 1 3 Catherine Russell Inside This Heart Of ...

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Article: Live Review

Finland's April Jazz Festival 2010

by Anthony Shaw
May 13, 2010

April Jazz Festival Espoo/Tapiola, Finland April 28-May 2, 2010 The wind in these northern climes can hit heavy, even during the sunny days of late April. This year an east wind drove down from the Arctic Ocean and any opportunity to get into the sun needed to be taken--but it's a sign ...

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 8 - Knitting Factory rolls out Fela Kuti reissue program (continued)

by Chris May
March 11, 2010

Part 7 of The Afrobeat Diaries reviewed the first three discs in Knitting Factory's launch batch of Fela Kuti reissues, the six-disc “Chop 'N' Quench" batch. The first three discs span the years 1964-72, and follow Kuti's music as it evolved from the highlife-jazz hybrid of the mid 1960s to the almost fully formed Afrobeat of ...

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 7 - Knitting Factory rolls out Fela Kuti reissue program

by Chris May
March 7, 2010

Following the release of its The Best Of The Black President sampler in November 2009, New York's Knitting Factory has cut to the main event in its Fela Kuti reissue program. The label, which is scheduled to release all of Kuti's albums during 2010, put out the first batch of six discs in February. Titled the ...

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 6 - Brooklyn's Akoya Afrobeat

by Chris May
January 7, 2010

Akoya AfrobeatP.D.P. President Dey PassAfrobomb Music2008 Among the spin-off benefits which are following the success of the hit Broadway musical Fela!, and the attendant media interest in Afrobeat, is the revitalization of the Brooklyn band Akoya Afrobeat. Formed in 2002, Akoya was off radar for much of ...

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Secret Agent

By Tony Allen

Label: Curly Music Productions
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Secret Agent; 02 Ljo; 03. Switch; 04. Celebrate; 05. Ayenlo; 06. Busybody; 07. Pariwo; 08. Nina Lowo; 09. Atuwaba; 10. Alutere; 11. Elewon Po.

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 5 - Revival & Revolution

by Chris May
November 15, 2009

Various ArtistsAfrobeat RevivalRough Guide2009 When Fela Kuti died in 1997, it seemed, for a while, as though Afrobeat might have died with him. So colossal was Kuti's role in the music, and so few were the young pretenders to his throne, that the vacuum left by his ...

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Article: Afrobeat Diaries

Part 1 - Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70: Alagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey Suffer

by Chris May
August 25, 2009

This is the first in a series of articles which will chronicle significant recordings, people and events in the story of Afrobeat, from its inception until the present day. First up, Alagbon Close by Fela Ransome Kuti (as he then was) and Africa 70 (as it then was), the 1974 album which marked ...

Article: Album Review

Tony Allen: Secret Agent

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 15, 2009

Per quanto già prevedibile nei suoi contenuti, non c'è niente da fare: ogni nuovo lavoro della macchina da ritmo dell'Afrobeat per eccellenza [15 anni dietro i tamburi di Fela Kuti, che senza di lui sosteneva non esistesse nemmeno l'Afrobeat, sono un lasciapassare per l'eternità], Tony Allen, è un gran bel sentire! L'ultimo, registrato a Lagos e ...