''The Source '' is an album by Nigerian drummer Tony Allen recorded in 2017 and released on the Blue Note label.Blue Note Records catalog
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Reception

Response was positive, with

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assigning the album an aggregate score of 83 out of 100 based on 9 critical reviews indicating "Universal acclaim". The

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review by Matt Collar called it "an earthy, majestic, endlessly inventive album that caps both his own storied career and points the way toward the future" observing that "On ''The Source'', he balances both his jazz and Afrobeat sides, delivering buoyant songs that are equal parts funky jams, harmonic engagements, and modal workouts". On

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, Mark Sullivan noted "African and French musicians playing American jazz, recorded on analog tape: this is fusion of a special kind".All About Jazz Review
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, John Lewis said "''The Source'' builds on Allen’s recent mini-LP of Art Blakey covers, but this time he and musical director Yann Jankielewicz invoke other jazz legends".Lewis, J
The Guardian Review
September 8, 2017

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's, Ben Cardew stated "On this hybrid album of jazz and Afrobeat, long-time Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen makes the complex sound effortless. Rarely has percussive innovation sounded this downright satisfying".Cardew, B
Pitchfork Review
September 6, 2017

Track listing

All compositions by Tony Allen and Yann Jankielewicz except where noted # "Moody Boy" – 6:33 # "Bad Roads" – 5:48 # "Cruising" – 6:01 # "On Fire" (Allen, Jankielewicz, Jean Phillippe Dury) – 6:17 # "Woro Dance" – 6:39 # "Tony's Blues" – 5:00 # "Wolf Eats Wolf" – 5:37 # "Cool Cats" – 4:22 # "Push and Pull" (Allen, Jankielewicz, Indy Dibongue) – 5:56 # "Ewajo" – 5:34 # "Life Is Beautiful" – 6:26

Personnel

* Tony Allen –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

*Nicolas Giraud –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B♭, though ...

*Daniel Zimmermann –

trombone The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the Standing wave, air c ...

tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

*Yann Jankielewicz –

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...

*Jean-Jacques Elangué – tenor saxophone,

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...

*Remi Sciuto –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone *Jean Phi Dary –

grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

, organ, clavinet *Indy Dibongue –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

*Mathias Allamane –

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

*Vincent Taurelle – organ (track 11) *

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(track 8)

References

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