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Femi Temowo // From Akure to Soweto

The band on stage has barely played together but it's hard to tell. That's because the groove emanating from their instruments sounds too in sync and in time. In fact, had it not been for the confession of tonight's bandleader, Femi Temowo, not many in attendance would be privy to that anecdote. For today's multi-band musicians, spur-of-the-moment sets must be the standard. For the audience, it's a fascinating musical roulette wheel.

It's another episode of jazz re:freshed, one of London's longest-running live jazz and funk outlets and it's the first time forty5sixty has ventured to the platform's new home at Ninety One Living Room on Brick Lane.

It's a band featuring the likes of Sam Crowe (of Giants Are Real) on keys, the youthful LOX in the drummer's seat, and Moses Olukayode on talking and sakara drum duties, adding to Temowo's superb guitar work. Tonight's set reads like an ode to his place of birth, Akure in the southwest of Nigeria. Intertwining lyrics in English and Yoruba, Femi takes the audience back to his West African upbringing with songs like 'Abeg Jare', 'Ore' (Friend), and 'Bola'.

Having moved to London aged, Temowo was late to pick up the guitar at 17, and remarkably, his dedication to the craft saw him start playing professionally just four years later. Stints with saxophonist Soweto Kinch's quartet and as a session guitarist for an array of global artists whetted the appetite for Temowo's own compositions which arrived in due course. Mixing slick and melodic guitar chords, Temowo slides effortlessly between afrobeat, Nigerian highlife folk music, and fújì - a popular Yoruba musical genre.

Tonight represents new horizons for Femi Temowo and jazz re:freshed. New locations and new directions but always landing in the right pocket.

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Fela’s Grandson, Made Kuti proposes to lover

Fela’s Grandson, Made Kuti proposes to lover

Fela’s Grandson, Made Kuti proposes to lover The son of saxophonist Femi Kuti and grandson of late Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti, has gotten a YES from his lover. The singer excitedly shared the news on Instagram on Tuesday, November 1. An excited Made revealed that he had proposed to his lover and she had accepted to spend eternity with him. For him, though there is lot of pain the world everyday,…

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[AUDIO] ‘Kabiesi’ – Zeatune Ft. Femi Saxophonist Zeatune team up with a saxophonist - Femi to release another great tune titled "Kabiesi" just after the release of "Ibuchimo"; this will surely drive anyone to magnify God.

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DOCUMENTARY | WE OUT HERE: A LDN STORY

All’inizio di quest’anno, la Brownswood Recordings, label di Gilles Peterson, ha pubblicato una delle compilation più importanti della sua storia decennale. Un’uscita che ha saputo dare visibilità ad freschissima realtà di musicisti jazz, che suonano a Londra. Giovani talenti che sono riusciti a plasmare un proprio sound, legato profondamente alla jungle, al grime e all’hip hop. La compilation è stata accompagnata da un documentario, ‘We Out Here: A LDN Jazz Story’, diretto da Fabrice Bourgelle. Un film che segue la realizzazione del disco, catturando il viaggio di un gruppo di musicisti, cresciuti e arrivati sui palchi insieme, protagonisti di un nuovo suono jazz a Londra. Tra questi, c’è il sassofonista Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia, i batteristi come Moses Boyd e Femi Koleoso, il tastierista Joe-Armon Jones e molti altri. Un film sulla rinascita del jazz britannico, che parla di amicizia, di Londra e di come essa influenzi questi artisti e viceversa. Non perdetevelo, lo potete guardare qua sopra. Buona visione.

Earlier this year, Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings released one of the most talked-about compilations in its decade-long history, capturing a cross-section of London’s jazz-inclined musicians through nine original compositions. Highlighting the vibrant community of friends and contemporaries that has helped incubate a sound drawn from the jungle, grime and hip-hop vibrations of the city as much as the music’s storied heritage,We Out Here was accompanied by a 40-minute documentary that has been screened across the world since its release. The work of photographer and film-maker Fabrice Bourgelle, ‘We Out Here: A LDN Story’ captures the recording process of the compilation and the journey of a certain group of young gifted players among many, who have trained and come up together, and whose sounds are now becoming an integral part of our musical landscape. These include saxophonists Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia, drummers Moses Boyd (whose second EP Absolute Zero was released on The Vinyl Factory last year) and Femi Koleoso, keyboardist Joe-Armon Jones, tuba player Theon Cross and many more. The documentary is not only about the renaissance of the London jazz scene, but also about friendship and London. How the city influences the artists and viceversa. Don’t miss it, watch it here above.

weouthere.london | weouthere.bandcamp

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Nigerian Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and activist, live at Webster Hall on Friday June 10!

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Femi Kuti Reacts To Death Of Orlando Julius

Femi Kuti Reacts To Death Of Orlando Julius

Femi Kuti Reacts To Death Of Orlando Julius   Afrobeat musician, Femi Kuti on Thursday reacted to the death of veteran musician, Orlando Julius. Naija News had earlier reported that the saxophonist, who hailed from Ijebu Ijesha in Osun state, died at 3 am on Friday at the age of 79 years.   Femi Kuti in a post on his Instagram account described the late veteran Nigerian Highlife musician as a…

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Femi Kuti Mourns Veteran Musician Orlando Julius

Femi Kuti Mourns Veteran Musician Orlando Julius

Femi Kuti Mourns Veteran Musician Orlando Julius Femi Kuti, the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti has reacted to the demise of veteran musician Orlando Julius who died at age 75. Femi Kuti posted the deceased’s photo on Instagram on Friday, sending his condolences and prayers to Orlando’s family. He described Orlando as a great musician and a great saxophonist. “Just heard of the passing…

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Etuk Ubong :: Black Debtors

Etuk Ubong was born and raised in Lagos, but you don’t need me to tell you that; “Black Debtors,” his latest single, is built on a truncated rhythm so thick it feels like Fela Kuti’s “Open and Close” groove folded over on itself four or five times — a rhythmic orientation Ubong knows plenty about as a former sideman for Femi Kuti. But he’s a trumpeter, not a saxophonist, and he loosely stacks his horn section in sharp needlepoints and stitches a line that feels as indebted to midcentury American jazz as it does to mid-70s Nigerian funk.

That’s no accident. On his Tales of Life album and Miracle EP, both of which dropped in May, Ubong carves a crystalline form of Birth of the Cool–era jazz, carefully controlling his playing and taking it just to the border of dissonance without ever actually going over. “Black Debtors” expands in a similar way; even as it grows and his band begins to double back and twist the beat, they never pop into pure ecstasy. Ubong coaxes the song away from the edge with his voice, too, singing with a warm-honey tone that brings to mind Louis Prima, an organ hoovering away in the distance all the while. It’s an effortless synthesis of Ubong’s Nigerian and American influences, and it points toward more thrilling things to come. words / m garner

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"24 years gone, we sttill miss yyyou," Femi Kuti celebrates his father, Fela

“24 years gone, we sttill miss yyyou,” Femi Kuti celebrates his father, Fela

Legendary saxophonist, Femi Kuti has taken to his social media page to celebrate his father, The legend of Afrobeats, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fela was one of the few African artiste that carried our sound world wide. He died on 1997, with rumours of AIDs. Femi Kuti shared a throwback of his father, wwoth the caption, “24 years gone and we still miss you our father.”

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Femi Koya Serenading West & South Africa with Afrobeat Nigerian-born Femi Koya arrived in South Africa in 2005 and since then, three albums have been released by the singer and saxophonist whose sound is a mix of Afrobeat, Highlife and Sophiatown-era jazz [...] Click here to view the original web page at www.redbull.com

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Nubya Garcia - Source (Maxwell Owin Remix)

Wasting no time since last month’s Brownswood compilation of new London talent, We Out Here, saxophonist Nubya Garcia – who featured on five of its nine tracks – has just dropped her second EP. When We Are EP features long-time collaborators Femi Koleoso on drums, Joe Armon-Jones on keys and Daniel Casimir on bass, and is a marked departure from the hushed environs of the jazz club into the propulsive movement of the dance floor.

This club-to-club transition is exemplified by Garcia’s enlisting of Wild Oats regular K15 and producer Maxwell Owin on remix duties. Owin, who collaborated with Armon-Jones on last year’s Dilla-influenced Idiom EP, takes the frenetic beat of ‘Source’ and flips it into a Rhodes-heavy slow burner. Opening with a wash of ambient chords, Garcia’s languorous saxophone lines float through the reverb and a pared-down cross stick beat. The dance floor is ever-present though, with a muddy synth-bass soon coming to the fore as Garcia’s meandering melodies intensify. All groove, Owin’s remix provides a sultry counterpart to the original’s intensity.

When We Are is out 8th March – buy from Bandcamp.

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KOKOROKO came back with “Carry Me Home”

London’s afrobeat sensation KOKOROKO shared a new song called “Carry Me Home”. This beautiful song reminds us of every positive thing from the band’s debut EP. It’s rhythmic, peaceful, harmonic, uplifting, soulful and melodic. This slow-rolling track has some brass-heavy accents which brings to mind Manu Dibango’s “Soul Makossa”. “Carry Me Home” is inspired by the wonderful Dele Sosimi, a Nigerian-British musician, keyboard player, and member of both Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Egypt 80 and Femi Kuti’s Positive Force band. The track was inspired by conversations with the Dele Sosimi, whose technical ability in bridging the gap between the West African afrobeat sound of his roots, and the London energy of his upbringing, has directly informed the ever-impressive capabilities demonstrated by London’s eight-piece collective, KOKOROKO. “I remember speaking with Dele Sosimi about the structure of Fela’s songs – every element plays a part. But, before melody or harmony, there’s rhythm. The rhythmic aspect of the solos from that era is amazing. The West African approach to jazz and improvisation is hip!”, said Maurice-Grey. Carry Me Home by KOKOROKO The band’s name is an Orobo – a Nigerian tribe and language – word meaning ‘be strong’. Sonically living up to their name, KOKOROKO is an all-star band featuring leading lights from the London jazz community. Powered by seismic horn section (Maurice Grey, saxophonist Cassie Kinoshi, trombonist Richie Seivewright), guitar (Oscar Jerome), keys (Yohan Kebede), drums (Ayo Salawu) and percussion (Onome Edgeworth); Kokoroko are on a mission to fashion new languages using the medium of afrobeat. Their first release was on Brownswood Recording’s compilation "We Out Here" two years ago, and their debut EP came out in 2019 on the same record label. Kokoroko "Carry Me Home" members: Sheila Maurice-Grey - Trumpet, Vocals Cassie Kinoshi - Tenor Sax, Vocals Richie Seivwright - Trombone, Vocals Onome Edgeworth - Percussion Ayo Salawu - Drums Oscar Jerome - Guitar Tobi Adenaike-Johnson - Guitar Yohan Kebede - Keys Duane Atherley - Bass Guitar Read the full article

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Quel plaisir pour @Stromae d’etre sur scène aux côtés de @coldplay , Norah Shaqur, Femi Kuti et ses saxophonistes.

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Gospel Music: Zeatune – Kabiesi ft Femi

Gospel Music: Zeatune – Kabiesi ft Femi

After dropping Ibuchimo recently, Zeatune teams up with a great saxophonist FEMI to release another great tune that will surely drive anyone to magnify God. Kabiesi is a song that confidently proclaims the supremacy of Jehovah above every other god. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork Psalm 19:1 Who can do the things that you do? Who can match the…