Fela Kuti

Retracted. But all Jazz and Jazz Fusion on this site is consequently rendered unjustified.

Edited by RoyFairbank - March 31 2012 at 16:05

He seems to be known on here by all the right sort of people: Alex (harmonium.ro) shared one of his vids on here back in June 2010: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=68544, and there was this thread by DallasBryan as long ago as February 2005: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3956. His discography his massive: http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/fela_kuti - perhaps that's why nobody has added him No, seriously whilst this music is generally appreciated by a good many folks on progarchives, I guess it must be deemed to fall outside the scope of the site, otherwise they guy would be on here already...let's see what folks say, eh?

Some people will probably read my stuff with round eyes, but... To me, he's somewhere between, let's say, Glass, Reich or Riley on one hand, some funk / jazz artists on the other hand.
I tend to think that Don Cherry's Brown Rice album (1976) must owe a few influences to Kuti's music. I also remember some tracks from the mid-70's by Herbie Hancock which had a little je-ne-sais-quoi who made me think of Kuti.

RoyFairbank wrote: Nigerian band leader who invented Afro-Beat, a style of high energy groove music with polyrhythmic drumming

^ I agree it is not Prog as such, but I do not consider many subgenres on this site to be prog, case in point Jazz Fusion which is amply represented. Since I am inclined to believe that innovation, breakthrough social importance, lyrical audacity and such, is progressive, if not prog, in the same vein that Jazz Fusion is "proggy" and beloved by Prog fans, I am also doubly inclined to pick Fela and his Afrobeat type of Jazz derivative over a host of the Jazz Fusion artists included on this site. 

Edited by RoyFairbank - March 30 2012 at 20:59

js (Easy Money) wrote: This site has an associated jazz site for artists like Fela http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/

Hee-aay, that site doesn't exist.

Oh no - not the invisibility cloak!

Tuzvihar wrote: RoyFairbank wrote: js (Easy Money) wrote: This site has an associated jazz site for artists like Fela http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/ Hee-aay, that site doesn't exist. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com Fixed. The ":" was missing in the link after "http".

It does exist! Little did I know.... I think that is fair enough. But in that case I recommend detaching most of progarchives into separate sites capped by an umbrella site. MusicArchives >>>>> Genre Sites >>>>>> with some artists on multiple genre sites but attempting to narrow this down as much as possible. I am sure this has already been suggested, but right now to my eyes ProgArchives is functioning as an ad-hoc umbrella site for conflicting genres.