Nigerian jazz artist Timothy Digba Ogunbiyi returned to a familiar stage at the @Rochester International Jazz Festival yesterday, sharing heart and storytelling with the Rochester community through two solo piano performances. Now, he reflects on music’s power to move and heal—something he’s experienced both on and off the stage. | Rochester Regional Health

Nigerian Jazz Pianist Dapo Dina plays "Oluwa Ku Ise"

Fela Kuti's musical style is called Afrobeat. It is a style he largely created, and is a complex fusion of jazz, funk, highlife, psychedelic rock and traditional Nigerian, African chants and rhythms. Afrobeat also borrows heavily from the native "tinker pan". #TonyAllen (Kuti's drummer of twenty years) was instrumental in the creation of Afrobeat. Kuti once stated that "there would be no Afrobeat without #TonyAllen". There were always two or more guitarists. The electric West African style guita