Fela Ransome-Kuti And The Africa ’70 With Ginger Baker – Live! (1971)
As the newly-revived “Curb Your Enthusiasm” has made abundantly clear, it is far to late to wish you all a happy new year. In fact, I managed not to post anything at all in the first month of the new decade. I had originally hoped to share this landmark Fela / Ginger Baker collaboration in late December, as a throwback to my old tradition of highlighting musicians who had passed on during the calendar year. But it was not meant to be. This record was originally issued on the obscure Signpost label in 1971. Before getting a wider release by Universal in the early 00’s, it had also been reissued in the well-curated catalogues of respectable labels like Knitting Factory and Celluloid. Continue reading