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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.
Tony Allen: Lagos No Shaking
by Chris May
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 ...
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
Tony Allen: I Remember Front Street
by Paul Lewis
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 ...
Eager Hands And Restless Feet - The Best Of Tony Allen
By Tony Allen
Label: TES
Released: 2002
Tony Allen: Black Voices
by Derrick A. Smith
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
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 ...
