Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival: African Groove Machine

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Tom Bancroft and Thomas Annang’s 10-piece band, plus dancer Adie Baako Elias, are committed to getting audiences grooving and moving.

About Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival: African Groove Machine

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West African music with jazz crossover. Tom Bancroft and Thomas Annang’s 10-piece band, plus dancer Adie Baako Elias, are committed to getting audiences grooving and moving as though this was downtown Accra, Lagos, and Kinshasa on a Saturday night. This mighty force embraces Fela Kuti’s concepts, afrobeat grooves, and more traditional African drumming into the jazz world.

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