Ebo Taylor Life Stories Highlife & Afrobeat Classics 1973-1980

• Ebo Taylor – Heaven
• Ebo Taylor – Atwer Abroba
• Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu – What Is Life
• Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu – Love And Death

• 1. Ebo Taylor – Heaven
• 2. Ebo Taylor – Atwer Abroba
• 3. Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu – What Is Life
• 4. Apagya Show Band – Tamfo Nyi Ekyir
• 5. Ebo Taylor – Peace On Earth
• 6. Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu – Victory
• 7. Assase Ase – Ohiani Sua Efir
• 8. Ebo Taylor – Aba Yaa
• 9. Ebo Taylor – Ohye Atar Gyan
• 10. Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu – Love And Death
• 11. Ebo Taylor & The Pelikans – Egya Edu
• 12. Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor – Ene Nyame Nam !A! Mensuro

Repress of the essential Ebo Taylor compilation ‘Life Stories’ in its original 2LP gatefold format!

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.

This compilation revisits this heyday of Taylor’s work, focusing on his solo albums and some of his lesser known side projects including the dynamite Apagya Show Band and Afro rock collective The Pelikans. The selection also touches on his writing and collaboration work with fellow member of early ‘70s band Blue Monks, Pat Thomas.

Highly Recommended!!!!