Tony Allen 70 – Nigeria 50 – review

Barbican, LondonThis was planned as a celebration of two anniversaries involving Nigeria, though one of them was arguably more glorious than the other. The event causing absolutely no controversy was the 70th birthday of Tony Allen, surely the greatest drummer Africa has produced, and still best-known for helping to fuse jazz, funk, soul and African rhythms to create Afrobeat style, during the years he played alongside Fela Kuti. The second, the 50th anniversary of Nigeria's independence, was mo...

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