Afrobeat

Sad Sad News – Tony Allen Died

ByJoe The Drummer May 1, 2020

Progenitor of Afrobeat drumming, the unbelieveably funky, Tony Allen has sadly died at age 79.

I was lucky enough to see Allen live several times.

Go in peace.

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Tony Allen Interview On The Trap Set Podcast – “My Drumming Is Complicated”
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Check out The Trap Set podcast and this great interview with Tony Allen – www.thetrapset.net/052-tony-allen-fela-kuti-afrika-70-solo-artist-rocket-juice-and-the-moon-team/. There isn’t all that much by way of Tony Allen talking about stuff, drum related or otherwise out yonder in the cyber-ether-netverse so I greatly…

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What I?m Listening To This Week
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I’m never far away from a bit of Lowell George, one of the greatest singers and songwriters in the universe. Here is a fantastic track from his only solo album, Thanks I’ll Eat It Here which is a mixed bag,…

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Developing Coordination With Afrobeat Drumming
April 11, 2016 Afrobeat, Grooves

I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on my Afrobeat chops. I’ve been listening to a lot of Fela Kuti and his artistic descendants such as Antibalas and Abayomi Afrobeat Orquestra. I am slowly starting to grasp the…

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Developing Coordination With Afrobeat Drumming Pt. 3
May 24, 2016 Afrobeat, Drum Technique

If you haven’t seen them already, Check out part 1 and part 2. So let’s continue to develop our coordination with Tony Allen’s first groove of Afrobeat. Now that we can play a bunch of different ride and snare patterns,…

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Afrobeat | The Funk

What I’m Listening To This Week
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I have been slowly discovering Afrobeat. The grooves are mental. There seems to be a lot of improvising, weird snare patterns and generally the kind of independence I associate with playing Latin music. I started listening to some stuff by…

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More Tony Allen – Fela’s Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense
March 13, 2014 Afrobeat, Grooves

Important Addendum: The drummer on this album is not Tony Allen, I shoud have checked the credits. It was made after Tony Allen left Fela Kuti’s band. In a recent post I linked to the Fela Kuti Bandcamp Account. I…

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