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Ebo Taylor Cape Coast Ghana January 7 1936 Is A Highlife Guitarist Composer Arranger Bandleader And Producer. Ebo Taylor Has Been A Vital Figure On The Ghanaian Music Scene For Over Six Decades. In The Late '50s He Was Active In The Influential Highlife Bands The Stargazers And The Broadway Dance Band And In 1962 He Took His Own Group The Black Star Highlife Band To London Which Led To Collaborations With Fela Kuti And Other African Musicians In Britain At The Time. Returning To Ghana He Worked As A Producer Crafting Recordings For Pat Thomas C.K. Mann And Others As Well As Exploring His Own Projects Combining Traditional Ghanaian Material With Afro-Beat Jazz And Funk Rhythms To Create His Own Recognizable Sound In The '70s.
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Ebo Taylor Cape Coast Ghana January 7 1936 Is A Highlife Guitarist Composer Arranger Bandleader And Producer. Ebo Taylor Has Been A Vital Figure On The Ghanaian Music Scene For Over Six Decades. In The Late '50s He Was Active In The Influential Highlife Bands The Stargazers And The Broadway Dance Band And In 1962 He Took His Own Group The Black Star Highlife Band To London Which Led To Collaborations With Fela Kuti And Other African Musicians In Britain At The Time. Returning To Ghana He Worked As A Producer Crafting Recordings For Pat Thomas C.K. Mann And Others As Well As Exploring His Own Projects Combining Traditional Ghanaian Material With Afro-Beat Jazz And Funk Rhythms To Create His Own Recognizable Sound In The '70s.
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Following The Wartime Big Band Highlife Pioneers Like E.T. Mensah Taylor Became A Major Figure In Ghanaian Highlife During The 1950s And ’60s As Highlife Exploded. Cutting His Teeth With Leading Big Bands Like Stargazers And Broadway Dance Band Ebo Taylor Quickly Rose Through The Ranks And Became A Prolific Composer And Frontman. Taylor Moved To London In 1962 To Study. “I Had The Black Star Highlife Band Sponsored By The Ghanaian High Commission Mainly Comprising Music Students. We Tried To Incorporate Jazz Into Highlife And Progressed Through Talking And Through Jam Sessions Trying To Develop Our Skills And Ideas.”
Back In Ghana Taylor Became An In-House Arranger And Producer For Labels Like Essiebons Working With Other Leading Ghanaian Stars Including C.K. Mann And Pat Thomas. “I Was Paid To Write For Them And We Made Some Great Records. People Were Trying New Things – I Always Loved C.K. Mann’s ’Funky Highlife’. It Was Fresh.“ Through The Mid-‘70s And Into The ‘80s Taylor Then Recorded A Number Of Solo Projects Exploring Unique Fusions And Borrowing Elements From Traditional Ghanaian Sounds Fela’s Afrobeat Jazz Soul And Funk. Tracks Like ‘Heaven’ Now Stand As Among The Best Ghanaian Afrobeat Of The Era.
Interest In Ebo Taylor’s Music Has Grown In Recent Years With A Series Of Ghanaian Compilations On Soundway Records And Analog Africa And An Unexpected Sample As Usher Lifted A Riff From ‚Heaven’ For His Hit With Ludacris ‘She Don’t Know’. A New Ebo Taylor Album Was A Natural Progression. “For New Album I Wanted To Advance The Cause Of Afrobeat Music. Fela Started It And We Shouldn’t Just Abandon It. We Should Push It So It Is A Standard Form Of Music.“ The Result Is A Firing New Set Backed By Afrobeat Academy A Berlin-Based Collective Of International Musicians. Tracks Include New Versions Of Taylor Classics ‘Victory’ And ‘Love And Death’ And A Selection Of New Compositions Including ‘Kwame’ Celebrating Ghana’s Late Lamented Leader Kwame Nkrumah.
Published: 10 Oct 2010, 11:52
Strut Link Up With One Of The True Greats Of Ghanaian Music Ebo Taylor For His First Ever Internationally Released Studio Album.Following The Wartime Big Band Highlife Pioneers Like E.T. Mensah Taylor Became A Major Figure In Ghanaian Highlife During The 1950s And ’60s As Highlife Exploded. Cutting His Teeth With Leading Big Bands Like Stargazers And Broadway Dance Band Ebo Taylor Quickly Rose Through The Ranks And Became A Prolific Composer And Frontman. Taylor Moved To London In 1962 To Study. “I Had The Black Star Highlife Band Sponsored By The Ghanaian High Commission Mainly Comprising Music Students. We Tried To Incorporate Jazz Into Highlife And Progressed Through Talking And Through Jam Sessions Trying To Develop Our Skills And Ideas.”
Back In Ghana Taylor Became An In-House Arranger And Producer For Labels Like Essiebons Working With Other Leading Ghanaian Stars Including C.K. Mann And Pat Thomas. “I Was Paid To Write For Them And We Made Some Great Records. People Were Trying New Things – I Always Loved C.K. Mann’s ’Funky Highlife’. It Was Fresh.“ Through The Mid-‘70s And Into The ‘80s Taylor Then Recorded A Number Of Solo Projects Exploring Unique Fusions And Borrowing Elements From Traditional Ghanaian Sounds Fela’s Afrobeat Jazz Soul And Funk. Tracks Like ‘Heaven’ Now Stand As Among The Best Ghanaian Afrobeat Of The Era.
Interest In Ebo Taylor’s Music Has Grown In Recent Years With A Series Of Ghanaian Compilations On Soundway Records And Analog Africa And An Unexpected Sample As Usher Lifted A Riff From ‚Heaven’ For His Hit With Ludacris ‘She Don’t Know’. A New Ebo Taylor Album Was A Natural Progression. “For New Album I Wanted To Advance The Cause Of Afrobeat Music. Fela Started It And We Shouldn’t Just Abandon It. We Should Push It So It Is A Standard Form Of Music.“ The Result Is A Firing New Set Backed By Afrobeat Academy A Berlin-Based Collective Of International Musicians. Tracks Include New Versions Of Taylor Classics ‘Victory’ And ‘Love And Death’ And A Selection Of New Compositions Including ‘Kwame’ Celebrating Ghana’s Late Lamented Leader Kwame Nkrumah.