Cooking Pepper Soup with Michael Olatuja
Bass player and songwriter Michael Olatuja has a career that spans continents and styles. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, spent his teenage years playing on the London jazz scene, and has spent much of his career here in\xa0New York, playing with everyone from Diana Ross to Shakira to the band for the Broadway hit Frozen. His latest album, called Lagos Pepper Soup, is a tribute to those three cities, and his\xa0cinematic Afrobeat sound contains jazz roots of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen, but also perhaps a bit of orchestration from his work with Broadway and Angelique Kidjo.\xa0Michael and his band play songs from the new album in-studio.\xa0\xa0
\nMichael Olatuja plays at Joe's Pub on Sept. 27.\xa0
\nMichael teaches you the recipe for pepper soup here:
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\nSet list: \u201cBrighter Day\u201d, \u201cThe Hero\u2019s Journey\u201d, \u201cLagos Pepper Soup\u201d
\nWatch\xa0\u201cThe Hero\u2019s Journey\u201d:
\n\nWatch "Lagos Pepper Soup":