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SOLOMON ILORIAND HIS AFRICAN DRUM ENSEMBLE
AFRICAN HIGH LIFE |  |
Description:
African High Life was certainly not your typical 1963 Blue Note session. Solomon Ilori had come to Blue Note's attention through his participation as vocalist, drummer, and composer on Art Blakey's final drum ensemble album a year earlier, The African Beat. But it was the unexpected success of Drums Of Passion and More Drums Of Passion by fellow Nigerian Michael Babatunde Olatunji a few years earlier that made a project such as this feasible. A year and a half later, Ilori made a second Blue Note session that was never released. The material here is much longer in duration, but because only three of the five tunes achieved releasable final takes, no album was forthcoming. That material is issued here for the first time. |
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 Tolani (African Love Song)
Ise Oluwa (God's Work Is Indestructable)
Follow Me To Africa
Yaba E (Farewell)
Jojolo (Look At This Beautiful Girl)
Aiye Le (The Troubled World)
Gbogbo Omo Ibile (Going Home)
Agbamurero (Rhino)
Igbesi Aiye (Song Of Praise To God) |
Personnel: Chief Bey, Josiah Ilori, Robert Crowder, Sonny Morgan, Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones, more |
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