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Article: African Jazz

Tony Allen: Secret Agent

by Chris May
May 25, 2009

Tony Allen Secret Agent World Circuit 2009 It's been a good six months for Afrobeat, the turbulent jazz meets funk meets West African roots music associated with the Nigerian singer Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938 - 1997) and his bands Afrika 70 and Egypt 80. There have been cracking ...

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Losun / One Tree / Ole

By Tony Allen

Label: TES
Released: 2007

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Moyege

By Tony Allen

Label: TES
Released: 2006

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Lagos No Shaking

By Tony Allen

Label: Honest Jons Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Ise Nla; Morose; Aye Le; Losun; One Tree; Ole; Kilode; Awa Na Re; Ogogoro; Moyege; Obe Du.

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Article: Album Review

Tony Allen: Lagos No Shaking

Read "Lagos No Shaking" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 20, 2006

More than any other member of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's early bands, drummer Tony Allen can be said to have co-invented Afrobeat. Kuti provided the funk/jazz/Yoruba folk music themes and arrangements--plus the trademark insurrectionary lyrics and, crucially in the face of vicious and ongoing state attempts to silence the band, the leadership. (The buck sure enough stopped ...

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I Remember Front Street

By Tony Allen

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. I Remember Front Street, 2. From Here to Eternity, 3. Love Letters, 4. P.S. I Love You, 5. Two Sleepy People, 6. I Remember You, 7. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You), 8. When Your Lover Has Gone, 9. Don't Worry About Me, 10. I Wish I were In Love Again, 11. Again, 12. Thanks for the Memories

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Tony Allen: I Remember Front Street

Read "I Remember Front Street" reviewed by Paul Lewis

by Paul Lewis
March 26, 2005

Tom Brokaw describes the subjects of his latest book, The Greatest Generation as enjoying tremendous popularity. And there's a “best-kept secret" swing album that one could consider a tribute to that generation.Tony Allen (a.k.a. Tony “Hooks" DeDominicus) has been singing for 50 years. Amazingly, at 76, his breezy, delightful timbre which at once evokes ...

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