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A previously unreleased drum solo featuring Afrobeat legend Tony Allen and Cream’s Ginger Baker has been unearthed for a 50th anniversary reissue of Fela Kuti’s Live!, arriving November 19th via Partisan. Allen and Baker’s drum solo was taken from Africa 70’s performance at the 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival; famously, this …

As anyone who’s seen the excellent 2012 documentary Beware of Mr. Baker knows, the wildman Cream drummer isn’t the easiest person to get along with. He’s moody, easy to anger, extremely opinionated and prone to sudden flashes of violence. It’s therefore not very surprising that his son Kofi doesn’t hold …