FELA KUTI AND AFRIKA 70 - SHAKARA 33 RPM bassist Jack Six and drummer

bassist Jack Six and drummer Alan Dawson

sexy backing vocals and lush strings

imaginative — the definition of cool

Hank Mobley produces some fine blues-inflected tenor solos

1 1992 album garnered six Grammy Awards

FELA KUTI AND AFRIKA 70 - SHAKARA 33 RPM bassist Jack Six and drummerTracks: 1. Lady 2. Shakara (Oloje) Description: In response to popular demand, Knitting Factory Records is reissuing more albums from its series by the Nigerian icon and Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti. Shakara is one of a clutch of early 1970s albums also among them Fela's London Scene and Afrodisiac on which Fela's Afrobeat transitioned from foetal stage to something approaching full grown form. Shakara (1971) includes three of mature Afrobeat's