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Solomon Ilori And His Afro-Drum Ensemble: African High Life

Read "African High Life" reviewed by Chris May


Every now and again, a label pulls a previously unissued session out of the vaults and it proves to be a down-by-law number one with a mango. Candid did it earlier in 2006 with Jamaican tenor saxophonist Wilton Gaynair's Africa Calling (London, 1960). Now it's Blue Note's turn with Solomon Ilori's African High Life (Englewood Cliffs, 1963-64)--or to be precise, the album's final three tracks, recorded eighteen months after the rest of the set, and which together clock up just ...

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African High Life

Blue Note Records
2006

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