TONY ALLEN: On Beyond Fela

Wednesday Mayhem 23 8:AM to 10:AM
Hosted by Ann Arbor

Tony Oladipo Allen is best known as the music director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's band Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979. Fela once stated that, "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat." Brian Eno called him "perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived." Ann Arbor will look at his work after 1979 when he left Fela's band and went out on his own.