Date
Thursday 17 June 2010 at 11:00pm
Location
(le) poisson rouge
158 Bleecker Street,
New York,
10012,
United States
Tel: 212-505-FISH
Link
Description
Thursday 06.17.10
Rich Medina & LPR present Jump 'n Funk: Tony Allen w/ Janka Nabay
11:00pm doors | 11:30pm show
$20 advance | $25 show
Strictly 21+
The co-inventor of AfroBeat is back... Tony Allen leads his 10 piece Afrobeat Orchestra Live in NY for the first time in 7 years. There would be no Afrobeat without Tony Allen!
Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it's most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat - the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.
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