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As the anniversaries of pandemic lockdowns arrive, many of us have been reflecting on the people we've lost in the past year, whether from COVID or any other cause. If any good can come from all times, I hope we never again take for granted the opportunity to say goodbye or come together to celebrate a life.
Thankfully, when it comes to the latter, we can do it whenever we want. And when it comes to game-changing drummer and composer Tony Allen, who died last spring at age 79 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm, we can also console ourselves with the knowledge that he achieved a sort of immortality during his days with us. The title of his first posthumous full-length,