This is FRESH AIR. In Nigeria in 1964, when future Afrobeat star Fela Kuti heard and hired his influential drummer Tony Allen, they were both working as jazz musicians. The following year, they ...

Influential drummer Tony Allen has been hailed as a “titan” after his death at the age of 79. The Nigerian musician, together with Fela Kuti, helped define the Afrobeat genre as part of the band ...

Tony Allen, one of the co-founders of Afrobeat, a genre that went on to define even more than five generations after it was formed, is often remembered for his time as a drummer for Nigerian great ...

Jazz Is Dead, the label co-founded by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad that issues top-shelf recordings, will release Tony Allen JID018 on July 7. Pre-order the album here.

Tony Allen was one of the founders of the deep-grooved Afrobeat style — alongside his musical collaborator, Fela Kuti. The drummer died Wednesday evening in Paris of a heart attack.

The only reason Tony Allen passed away was because of that lockdown–he had a whole life of rock ‘n’ roll, you can’t just lock someone like that in the house for two years. At the group's core sits ...

Jazz Is Dead, the label co-founded by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad that issues top-shelf recordings, will release Tony Allen JID018 on July 7. Today, the label has revealed "No End," the ...

Nigerian drummer Tony Allen, co-creator of Afrobeat, died at the age of 79 on Thursday, his manager has told CNN.

Foals singer/guitarist Yannis Philippakis has announced Lagos Paris London, an EP he made with the late Afrobeat icon and Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen.

Legend has it that when Nigerian drummer Tony Allen quit the band of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, it took four percussionists to replace him.