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Many jazz musicians have been attracted to afrobeat.

From Roy Ayers in the 1970s to Randy Weston in the 1990s, there have been collaborations which have resulted in albums such as Africa: Centre of the World by Roy Ayers, released on the Polydore label in 1981.

In 1994 Branford Marsalis, the American jazz saxophonist, included samples of Fela's " Beast of No Nation " on his Buckshot LeFonque album.

The new generation of DJs and musicians of the 2000s who have fallen in love with both Kuti's material and other rare releases have made compilations and remixes of these recordings, thus re-introducing the genre to new generations of listeners and fans of afropop and groove.