Aleke Kanonu

Nigerian musician Aleke Kanonu is quite unknown yet he has worked with numerous jazz artists in the USA. He sang and played kalimba and congas with Stanley Cowell on the album entitled ‘Regeneration’ on Strata-East in 1976. In 1980 came ’Aleke’, a great afro-beat LP with jazz musicians like Wynton Marsalis. A year later, an obscure 12″ was recorded in New York with Mr Tolbert , entitled “Happiness / Nwanne, Nwanne, Nwanne”.