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With drummer Tony Allen

Duration:: 3 hours

First broadcast:: Saturday 28 April 2012

Gilles Peterson continues to join the dots on his new 6 Music show, playing tracks from the worlds of jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and house.

This week, he's joined by Nigerian drummer extraordinaire, Tony Allen, for an hour of words and Afrobeat music. They discuss Tony's long and esteemed career, which began with Fela Kuti in Lagos, back in the mid-1960s, as a member of the legendary Africa 70 band.

Having featured on over 30 of the group's albums over a 20 year period, more recently Tony has collaborated with Damon Albarn on The Good, The Bad & The Queen project of 2004, before once again teaming up with Albarn on his Rocketjuice and The Moon project.

Metronomy Everything Goes My Way
Because Music
Panama Tune Talking about Love
Bepu N'Gali I Travel To You
International Feel
Berimbao Side A (Funky Bomba Edit)
Bompa Disco
Exile House We The Youth 5
3A Production
Spy From Cairo My Blue Camel
White
Roy Haynes Dorian (feat. Booker Ervin Quartet)
Prestrige Records
Jeb Loy Nichols Disappointment
Decca
Roy Ayers We Live In Brooklyn Baby
Polydor
Synkro Why Don't You
Apollo Records
Anushka Yes Guess
White
The Makers Don't Challenge Me
Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984, Chocolate Industries
Belleruche Longer Days, Longer Nights
Tru Thoughts
Poliça Happy Be Fine
Memphis Industries
The Internet They Say (feat. Tay Walker)
Odd Future Records
The Roots Upper Egypt
White
Pharoah Sanders Upper Egypt And Lower Egypt
Impulse! Records
Get the Blessing Americano Meccano
Naim Jazz
Jeb Loy Nichols Going Where The Lonely Go
Decca
James Litherland Where To Turn
Confidential
James Blake The Wilhelm Scream
Roberto Fonseca Nawastop
White
Damon Bell Ezuku
Deepblak
The Good, the Bad & the Queen Herculean
Parlophone
Rocket Juice and The Moon Manuela (feat. Erykah Badu)
Honest Jon's Records
Rocket Juice and The Moon Extinquished (feat. Chiek Tidiane Seck & FELA KUTI)
Rocket Juice and The Moon, Honest Jon's Records, 8
Koola Lobitos Viva Nigeria
Universal Music GmbH
Koola Lobitos This Is Sad
Universal Music GmbH
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Moanin'
Blue Note Records
Tony Allen Plays With Afrika '70 Colonial Mentality
Vampi Soul
Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker Ye Ye De Smell
EMI
Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 Shakara
EMi Nigeria
Tony Allen Plays With Afrika '70 Afro Disco Beat
Vampi Soul
Sébastien Tellier La Ritournelle
Bucky Leo Skeleton's Winter Dub
White
James Welsh Air Valley
Losing Suki
Bicep $tripper
Love Fever Records
Art of Tones For Real
Room With A View
First Choice Let No Man Put Asunder
Salsoul Records
Mala Cubana Electronico
White
Pariah Left Unsaid
White
United Future Organization The Planet Plan
Talkin' Loud, Talkin' Loud