A journey at the heart of Nigerian afrobeat from Orlando Julius to the ethnojazz of Alemay?hu Esh?t? passing by the High life of the Ghanaian Ebo Taylor. Reissue
During the 1920s and 1930s, many African American musicians were still rooted in string-band traditions of the previous century, an era when the fiddle was king. Yet even the best of those players...