{"product_id":"tony-allen_rejoice_2024_uni","title":"Rejoice","description":"Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela first met in the 1970s and for decades discussed making an album together. It was producer Nick Gold who recorded their collaboration when the opportunity arose in 2010. The unfinished sessions, consisting of all the duo's original compositions, remained in the archives until Masekela's death in 2018. With the blessing and participation of Hugh's estate, Tony Allen and Nick Gold unearthed the original tapes and finished recording the album in the summer of 2019 in the same London studio where the original sessions had taken place. Allen and Masekela are accompanied on the record by a new generation of highly respected jazz musicians, including Tom Herbert (Acoustic Ladyland \/ The Invisible), Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective), Mutale Chashi (Kokoroko) and Steve Williamson. \"...When two giants of African jazz meet for a unique project. An idea that emerged in the 70s, an appointment in 2010 to start planning the work, meetings and recordings. Then Hugh Masekela passed away in 2018. And on March 20, 2020, the album is finally in stores!\" - by Jacques PAUPER on Couleurs Jazz, 27\/03\/2020 - \"Tony Allen, (like us!) declares himself very happy with the final album and remains phlegmatic about the prolonged duration of its conception. \"Ten years is a long time from the beginning to the end of an album, but my own philosophy is that everything eventually happens at the right time, for a reason...\" He adds about the last track on the album, \"We've Landed\". \"The song is dedicated to today's youth. The lyrics are aimed at 17, 18, 19 year olds, who are slowly becoming adults, discovering who they are and realizing that it's their generation's turn to act!\" They are accompanied by the crème de la crème of today's young jazz musicians: Tom Herbert or Mutale Chashi of Kokoroko on bass, Elliot Galvin or Joe Armon-Jones of Ezra Collective on keyboards, Steve Williamson on tenor saxophone, Lekan Bablola on percussion, Lewis Wright on vibraphone. A gathering of powerful, foundational African musical styles, a joyful dialogue that swings between Nigeria and South Africa. Borders are abolished, sources merge into a single river of captivating rhythms and notes.\" - by Jacques PAUPER on Couleurs Jazz, 27\/03\/2020 - \"NOTE: Tony Allen was to perform the songs from Rejoice with a specially formed band at concerts and festivals throughout 2020, including two intimate concerts in London at the Church of Sound on March 12 and 13 and the closing date of the Banlieues Bleues Festival on April 3 at L'Embarcadère in Aubervilliers... But alas.\"","brand":"Tony Allen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55314222252376,"sku":null,"price":23988279.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/4050538557497.jpg?v=1771179552","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/tony-allen_rejoice_2024_uni","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}