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Boubacar Traoré has been making music for over 50 years and was the first
guitarist to blend Mandingo musical traditions with African-American blues.
After enjoying success in the 1960s, Traoré's popularity waned and for
two decades, he disappeared from public view before b...
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Tony Allen, drummer and music director for Fela Kuti's Africa 70 band, and
a chief architect of the afrobeat sound, is still going strong at 77.
And Fela's youngest son, Seun Kuti continues to lead his father's Egypt 80
band. Both artists have new albums from which we will ...
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In the first hour we remember the recently departed trumpeter Hugh Masekela.
And in the second half of the show we will look ahead to the upcoming
Portland performance of the pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (Wed. 2/21 at Revolution
Hall).
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