Ra was doubtless referring to the bands of such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson, but this exhaustive 27-disc retrospective of the career of Fela Kuti, on which some 46 ...

But it’s still an unreservedly recommended purchase for the Fela Kuti neophyte. Fela’s back catalogue doesn’t lend itself to such compilation, for a number of reasons. For one, few jams in ...