Rejoice: Special Edition 2LP

Release Date: 22nd Oct 2021
Catalogue No: 5053864792
Label: World Circuit (BMG)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O'Galajani)

Work length4:35

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Joe Armon Jones (keyboards), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tom Allen, Tony Allen: Agbada Bougou

Work length5:26

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Joe Armon Jones (keyboards), Steve Williamson (tenor saxophone), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Coconut Jam

Work length3:31

Tony Allen (drums), Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same)

Work length3:53

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Joe Armon Jones (keyboards), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Lewis Wright (vibraphone), Mutale Chashi (bass), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Slow Bones

Work length5:49

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Mutale Chashi (bass), Steve Williamson (tenor saxophone), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)

Work length5:41

Tony Allen (drums), Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Lewis Wright (vibraphone), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Obama Shuffle Strut Blues

Work length4:40

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Elliot Galvin (keyboards), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Steve Williamson (tenor saxophone), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: We've Landed

Work length4:38

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Lewis Wright (vibraphone), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Robbers, Thugs and Muggers (O'Galajani)

Work length4:44

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (congas), Hugh Masekela (piano), Tony Allen (drums)

Hugh Masekela, Tom Allen, Tony Allen: Agbada Bougou

Work length5:04

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Joe Armon Jones (electric piano), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Rody Cereyon (bass), Tom Herbert (double bass)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Coconut Jam

Work length3:17

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Elliot Galvin (synthesizer), Lekan Babalola (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same)

Work length3:25

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Dele Sosimi (electric piano), Elliot Galvin (farfisa organ), Lekan Babalola (percussion)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Slow Bones

Work length5:47

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Elliot Galvin (electric piano), Rody Cereyon (bass)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Jabulani (Rejoice, Here Comes Tony)

Work length4:53

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Joe Armon Jones (electric piano), Rody Cereyon (bass)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: Obama Shuffle Strut Blues

Work length3:49

Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Tony Allen (drums), Dele Sosimi (electric piano), Elliot Galvin (synthesizer)

Hugh Masekela, Tony Allen: We've Landed

Work length4:37

Tony Allen (drums), Hugh Masekela (flugelhorn), Lekan Babalola (percussion), Lewis Wright (vibraphone), Tom Herbert (bass), Tony Allen (percussion)

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'Rejoice' is the classic collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz. The record, released to great acclaim in March 2020, became the first posthumous release from Masekela, and the last release from Allen, who sadly passed away a month later.

For this Special Edition, World Circuit have gone back to the original 2010 mixes and added previously unheard parts from the 2019 sessions to create 8 reimagined bonus mixes. The CD and LP releases also feature a booklet with sleeve notes and photos.

Having first met in the 70s thanks to their respective close associations with Fela Kuti, the two world-renowned musicians talked for decades about making an album together. When, in 2010, their touring schedules coincided in the UK, the moment presented itself and producer Nick Gold took the opportunity to record their encounter. The unfinished sessions, consisting of all original compositions by the pair, lay in archive until after Masekela passed away in 2018. With renewed resolution, Tony Allen and Nick Gold, with the blessing and participation of Hugh Masekela's estate, unearthed the original tapes and finished recording the album in summer 2019 at the same London studio where the original sessions had taken place.

'Rejoice' can be seen as the long overdue confluence of two mighty African musical rivers - a union of two free-flowing souls for whom borders, whether physical or stylistic, are things to pass through or ignore completely. According to Allen, the album deals in "a kind of South African-Nigerian swing-jazz stew", with its roots firmly in Afrobeat. Allen and Masekela are accompanied on the record by a new generation of well-respected jazz musicians including Tom Herbert (Acoustic Ladyland / The Invisible), Joe Armon-Jones (Ezra Collective), Mutale Chashi (Kokoroko) and Steve Williamson.

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