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E.T. Mensah
Künstlerbiographie E.T. Mensah
Died July 1996
Mensah Pioneered The Development Of The Swing-Jazz Influenced Highlife Dance-Bands That Were So Popular Throughout West Africa In The 1950's And 60's. Indeed These Urban Dance Bands Became The Musical Zeitgeist Of The Optimistic Period Of Early Independence. Their Successful Use Of Sophisticated Western Instruments To Play African Tunes Mirrored The Fact That A Western Socio-Political Structure Was Also Becoming Rapidly Africanized. While Still A Small Boy E.T. Began Playing Flute In The Accra Orchestra A Youth Band Formed By Teacher Lamptey Around 1930. Lamptey The Headmaster Of A James Town Elementary School Had Been A Member Of One Of The First Dance Orchestras In Ghana The Jazz Kings Formed In The Early 1920s. Accra Orchestra Became The Best-Known Prewar Orchestra And Many Of Ghana's Top Musicians Played In It Including E.T. Joe Kelly And Tommy Gripman. Sadly E.T Passed Away In July 1996 After A Long Incapacitating Illness At His Family House In The Mamprobi Area Of Accra.
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Biography - E.T. Mensah
Died July 1996
Mensah Pioneered The Development Of The Swing-Jazz Influenced Highlife Dance-Bands That Were So Popular Throughout West Africa In The 1950's And 60's. Indeed These Urban Dance Bands Became The Musical Zeitgeist Of The Optimistic Period Of Early Independence. Their Successful Use Of Sophisticated Western Instruments To Play African Tunes Mirrored The Fact That A Western Socio-Political Structure Was Also Becoming Rapidly Africanized. While Still A Small Boy E.T. Began Playing Flute In The Accra Orchestra A Youth Band Formed By Teacher Lamptey Around 1930. Lamptey The Headmaster Of A James Town Elementary School Had Been A Member Of One Of The First Dance Orchestras In Ghana The Jazz Kings Formed In The Early 1920s. Accra Orchestra Became The Best-Known Prewar Orchestra And Many Of Ghana's Top Musicians Played In It Including E.T. Joe Kelly And Tommy Gripman. Sadly E.T Passed Away In July 1996 After A Long Incapacitating Illness At His Family House In The Mamprobi Area Of Accra. read less
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Mensah Pioneered The Development Of The Swing-Jazz Influenced Highlife Dance-Bands That Were So Popular Throughout West Africa In The 1950's And 60's. Indeed These Urban Dance Bands Became The Musical Zeitgeist Of The Optimistic Period Of Early Independence. Their Successful Use Of Sophisticated Western Instruments To Play African Tunes Mirrored The Fact That A Western Socio-Political Structure Was Also Becoming Rapidly Africanized. While Still A Small Boy E.T. Began Playing Flute In The Accra Orchestra A Youth Band Formed By Teacher Lamptey Around 1930. Lamptey The Headmaster Of A James Town Elementary School Had Been A Member Of One Of The First Dance Orchestras In Ghana The Jazz Kings Formed In The Early 1920s. Accra Orchestra Became The Best-Known Prewar Orchestra And Many Of Ghana's Top Musicians Played In It Including E.T. Joe Kelly And Tommy Gripman. Sadly E.T Passed Away In July 1996 After A Long Incapacitating Illness At His Family House In The Mamprobi Area Of Accra. read less
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