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Tony Allen. Anthony Allen (born January 11, 1982), nicknamed " the Grindfather," is an American former professional basketball player who played for 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), primarily for the Boston Celtics and Memphis Grizzlies. He is a six-time member on the NBA All-Defensive Team, including three first-team ...
Tony Oladipo Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) was a Nigerian and French drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and worked in Paris, France. Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti 's band Africa '70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the founders of the Afrobeat genre. [1][2] Fela once stated that "without Tony Allen ...
Tony Allen was a six-time All-NBA defender during his seven seasons with the Grizzlies. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) (Ronald Martinez via Getty Images) Between 2010-17 Allen, aka.
In the early days, Mick Foster and Tony Allen performed on stage as a duo, but in 1982 (when the concert tours started) they added a band to their show, thus giving a much fuller sound to their program. On the recording front, Foster and Allen have released over 52 albums, many of which entered the UK Albums Chart. As well as the albums, they ...
Tony Allen started teaching stand-up comedy in 1982. From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, he was a regular workshop tutor with the drama department of Middlesex University. From 2003 onwards, he had a similar relationship with the drama department at the University of Kent, working with former comic Dr. Oliver Double. Allen was the artistic ...
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In addition to serving as the final studio album for Masekela, it also became Tony Allen's final studio album before his death on 30 April 2020. [15] The album contains eight tracks written by Allen and Masekela. The track "Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same)" is a tribute to Fela Kuti, through whom Allen and Masekela first met in the 1970s ...
In The Guardian, John Lewis said "The Source builds on Allen’s recent mini-LP of Art Blakey covers, but this time he and musical director Yann Jankielewicz invoke other jazz legends". [5] Pitchfork's, Ben Cardew stated "On this hybrid album of jazz and Afrobeat, long-time Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen makes the complex sound effortless. Rarely ...