Gwen Thomas

Gwen & Tiana: African Time

by Roger Farbey
April 6, 2019

It's not immediately clear that African Time is a jazz album at all. However, perusing the CD digipak's details, there are obvious clues that if not exactly jazz, it is certainly jazz-related. The first indication is the revelation that sharing the composing duties along with singers Gwen Thomas and Tiana Ewane is co-composer and guitarist Femi Temowa, who's no stranger to jazz, as his 2011 album Orin Meta will attest. In addition to playing the guitar parts, Temowa also produced ...