Chopteeth:
Afrofunk Big Band

By: Scott Caffrey While historical credit will go to Brooklyn's Antibalas as the first American blazers of Afrobeat, the Chocolate City's Chopteeth will be known as the ones who took it to the nth degree. With pedigree chops and a legitimate bandleader well-versed in the Dark Continent's history of groove, Afrofunk Big Band (Grisgris Discs) is the bomb. And I don't use phrases like that. Bassist Robert Fox was a Washington, D.C. labor organizer who, after losing a friend, got a wild-hair...

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