Tony Allen pays a glowing tribute to his lifelong idol Art Blakey at the Sons d'Hiver festival 2016 (France)🔔 Subscribe, watch live and join the community of music lovers:
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A legend of Afrobeat in constant motion, Tony Allen pays a glowing tribute to his lifelong idol, Art Blakey. It’s a concert where the drum is king and the past meets the present.
Co-inventor with Fela of Afrobeat, of which he is both guardian and living legend, Tony Allen has always refused to look to the past, preferring to imbue his diabolical groove in pop or electro projects (particularly with his “spiritual son,” Damon Albarn) to droning along in the conventional jazz loop. For him to decide to pay homage to Art Blakey, the American drummer had to occupy a special place in his personal pantheon, but he also had to find in his work something to renew himself, 50 years after his debut. Although Gene Cooper was the first drummer with whom Allen identified when he was still a technician for Nigerian radio, Art Blakey remains his true idol, the one whose style and charisma branded his musical personality. “At the end of the 1940s, Blakey spent two year in Nigeria and Ghana. He took our style, transformed it in the United States, then gave it back to us to inspire us all over again,” he explained at the release of The Source, one of the top jazz albums of 2017. It’s an album of original compositions under great influence, which never would have been possible without this concert-tribute given a year earlier at the Maison des Arts in Créteil. Surrounded by Jean-Philippe Dary (piano), Mathias Allamane (bass), and Jowee Omicil (saxophone), he reinterprets four standards written or popularized by Blakey ("Politely", "Night in Tunisia", "Moanin’", and "Drum Thunder"), to which he confers his legendary agility and elegance. It’s a rare exercise in his career that celebrates the modernity of the leader of the Jazz Messengers.
- Michaël Patin
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