Lagos Baby 1963-1969

https://amf.didiermary.fr/lagos-baby-1963-1969/

Some of Fela Kuti’s earliest recordings, with the Koola Lobitos band, are featured on the compilation Lagos Baby: 1963-1969, but the music he played at the time stretches from mostly fairly classic Highlife music to variations of jazzy-bluesy Highlife… […]

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Fela Kuti – Waka Waka

https://amf.didiermary.fr/waka-waka-fela-ransome-kuti/

“Waka Waka” and “Se E Tun De” on this 45T from the sixties by Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos.

There’s a live version on the 3-disc set Highlife: Jazz and AfroSoul (1963-1969) below.

A collection of recordings made between 1963 and 1969 that provide unique insight into the beginnings of Kuti’s craft. […]

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Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers:
🎵 2000 Blacks Got to Be Free

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https://felakuti.bandcamp.com/track/2000-blacks-got-to-be-free

https://open.spotify.com/track/2n7yrYNPbpBAlFIJvlKfHk

Tunde Williams – Mr. Big Mouth

https://amf.didiermary.fr/tunde-williams-africa70-big-mouth/

From “Tunde Williams plays with the Africa 70” – Mr. Big Mouth released in 1977.

[…] Tunde joined Fela’s Koola Lobitos as a trumpeter in late 1967, and remained with Fela through 1978, when he and several other bandmembers left the group acrimoniously following the Berlin Jazz Festival in September of that year. In Afrika 70 […]

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