RBMA World Tour 2011: Questlove's Afro-Picks
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Channel: Red Bull Music Academy · 2011 · Music
Questlove's Afro-Picks was the Paris stop of the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour 2011 during Jazz a la Villette festival. Questlove, The Roots' drummer and hip hop producer offered a contemporary tribute to African musical history through a selection of tracks played by the Afro-Picks Big Band, featuring Tony Allen himself on drums, Macy Gray, Black Thought, Mamani Keita, and Amp Fiddler, as well as members of Antibalas, the David Murray Big Band, The Roots, the Tony Allen Band, and Fela!, the Broadway musical.
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