Various artists - Red Hot & Riot

The Red Hot Organization, the international group dedicated to fighting AIDS through popular culture, is responsible for compiling some fine tribute albums in recent years, including portraits of Ellington, Gershwin and Cole Porter. The latest pays homage to Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer who died from AIDS-related causes in 1997. And artists covering Fela classics like “Lady,” “Colonial Mentality” and “Sorrow, Tears and Blood” range from his son Femi, Baaba Maal and Cheikh Lo to Sade, D’Angelo and Macy Gray. Inspired.