Sunday, 24 March 2013

Two Original Tracks from Saxophonist Dotun Bankole

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Tenor Saxophonist Dotun “Dotsax” Bankole dropped by my house the other night for a jam. He plays a 156k silver plate Mark VI which is abou...
Friday, 15 March 2013

Lee Konitz, Conversations on the Improviser’s Art

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Just finished reading Andy Hamilton’s excellent book of interviews with and about 85-year-old alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, one of the few ...
Sunday, 3 March 2013

The Genius of Fela’s Horn Lines

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Now that I have about a dozen of Fela Kuti’s tunes under my belt courtesy of weekly lessons with his former baritone sax player Showboy, c...
Sunday, 24 February 2013

Seun Kuti Premieres A New Song at the Shrine

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Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 performed last night at the New Africa Shrine in Lagos, their first Shrine appearance in 2013. The performance was ...
Saturday, 16 February 2013

Searching for Sugar Man (Jazz Version)

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Just finished watching the 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man , about early 70’s folk-rocker Sixto Rodriguez who found obscurity at ...
Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Femi Kuti on CNN’s Inside Africa

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There is a half-hour segment currently running on CNN’s Inside Africa series that focuses on contemporary music scene in West Africa (pri...
Friday, 18 January 2013

Ain’t Nobody’s Business

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The Penang Blues Brothers reconvened at Kim Gooi’s place for a late night jam last weekend, just prior to my return from Penang to Lagos. ...