Tony Allen & Adrian Younge: Tony Allen JID018 (Jazz Is Dead) - review
Tony Allen was an absolute giant, best known for being Fela Kuti’s drummer in the ’70s and thus helping to invent Afrobeat.
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Tony Allen was an absolute giant, best known for being Fela Kuti’s drummer in the ’70s and thus helping to invent Afrobeat.
19th annual DC JazzFest brought music throughout Washington, D.C. Audiences enjoyed sounds from jazz legends and up-and-coming talent.
Crick, who was a host on Classic FM and Jazz FM, died after a ‘short illness’
The United States has a rich tradition of great literary surnames: Twain, Hemingway, Melville, Steinbeck—each is immediately recognizable, tied to a range of works that captured the zeitgeist of a particular historical moment. In our present cultural climate, where literature's power as an artistic force has dimmed, such names have become uncommon. Whitehead may be one of the few that carries equivalent power. It stands for elegant, unpretentious prose, and a preoccupation with themes of virtue and identity in an America that continues to wrestle with its complicated history of racial i...