Afro Disia

Master the Art of Afro House Production: From Percussion to Melody, Kick Design, Mixing, and More

I created the name Lafayette Afro Rock Band. I had some experience in the domain and knew that we needed a complicated name in order for it to be registered. Anyway, I got the idea for this name using Lafayette Hudson’s first name the bassist of the group and called him explaining that there was now a group called the Lafayette Afro Rock Band. We made Soul Makossa, and Malik right after. The recordings of the Lafayette Afro Rock Band and Ice have been compiled on a new release, dropping October 28 on Manifesto Records.

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Latin Jazz by the nimble piano man Massimo Farao Italian jazz pianist Massimo Farao teams up with Cuban conga player Ernestico for Afro-Cuban jazz piano, bossa dedicated to Wynton Kelly, and a swagger full of Latin flavors.

Machito was born Frank Raul Grillo 16th February 1912, Tampa, Florida. Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz, for his bands of the 1940’s were probably the first to achieve a fusion of powerful Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation.

‘A Toda Cuba le Gusta’, the classic debut album by the Afro Cuban All Stars. The first in a trilogy of extraordinary albums recorded by World Circuit in a single two-week session at Havana’s EGREM studios, 1996. The other albums, which share many of the same personnel, were ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ and ‘Introducing Ruben Gonzalez’.

Showcasing the influence of funk, rock and disco on Nigerian music during the 1970s.
"Originally released as a nowlong- out-of-print collectors’ 7” box, this fully expanded album release now also includes extra tracks from Sonny Okosuns, Wings, Chief Kollington Ayinla and more. While for many people the fusion of funk and jazz music with Nigerian rhythms and aesthetics began with Fela Kuti and his afro-beat sound, in fact this can be traced further back to the phenomena of the 1960s Nigerian artists and house bands in nightclubs and hotels who interpreted US soul and pop music with a local flavour and none more so than Geraldo Pino, the ‘African James Brown’ who features heavily in this collection. Other similarly inspired Nigerian funk and soul artists featured here included Tony Grey and his Ozimba Messengers and Don Bruce and The Angels.