→ SUBSCRIBE TO BOILER ROOM: http://blrrm.tv/DailyMotion <br /> <br />http://boilerroom.tv/session/ronnie-scotts-presents-seun-kuti/ <br /> <br />We're very excited to be teaming up with Ronnie Scott's, London's most prestigious jazz club, to broadcast one of the great Afrobeat ensembles of our time: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80. <br /> <br />Son of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Seun first played with Egypt 80 (Fela's band) at the age of eight, following in his father's footsteps as a saxophonist & vocalist as well as inheriting his social-consciousness & outspoken political opinions. <br /> <br />Seun has now been at the helm of Egypt 80 for more than twenty years, having worked with the likes of Brian Eno & John Reynolds, the band's most recent album, A Long Way To The Beginning, was produced by Grammy-winning jazz renaissance man Robert Glasper and is described by Kuti as "a soundtrack for the mindset of most young people in Africa today". <br /> <br />Limited tickets for the performance are available here.
