Ebo Taylor
During Ghana’s highlife explosion during the 1950s and ‘60s following wartime highlife pioneers like E.T. Mensah, Ebo Taylor made his name as a prolific composer, arranger and frontman leading two of Ghana’s greatest big bands - Stargazers and Broadway Dance Band. Moving to London to study music in 1962 alongside West African luminaries like Fela Kuti and Peter King, Taylor formed the Black Star Highlife Band and began incorporating jazz elements into traditional highlife forms.
Returning to Ghana, Taylor became an in-house arranger and producer for Dick Essilfie-Bondzie’s Essiebons label, working with other major Ghanaian stars like C.K. Mann and Pat Thomas. Through the ’70s, he then recorded a number of solo projects, exploring unique fusions and borrowing elements from regional Ghanaian folk music, Afrobeat, jazz, soul and funk.
Discography
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8 Tracks- Artist
- Ebo Taylor
- ReleaseProduct
- Appia Kwa Bridge
- Label
- Strut
- Catalogue Number
- STRUT089
- Release Date
- April 16, 2012
- CD
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16 Tracks- Artist
- Ebo Taylor
- ReleaseProduct
- Life Stories
- Label
- Strut
- Catalogue Number
- STRUT072
- Release Date
- April 12, 2011
- 12"
- CD
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8 Tracks- Artist
- Ebo Taylor
- ReleaseProduct
- Love & Death
- Label
- Strut
- Catalogue Number
- STRUT073
- Release Date
- October 26, 2010
- LP
- CD
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Appears On
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24 Tracks- Artist
- Various Artists
- ReleaseProduct
- Strut Afro-Beats
- Label
- Strut
- Catalogue Number
- STRUT131CD
- Release Date
- December 18, 2014
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