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E.T. Mensah

Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O: True Story

by Chris May
May 31, 2024

One of the minor but intriguing mysteries of modern culture is why the trombone is commonplace in African American music yet only rarely heard in Africa itself. Since its earliest days, jazz in the US has featured the trombone, as did ska in Jamaica. In analog-age samba and bossa nova in Brazil, the instrument was practically ...

All For You

By E.T. Mensah

Label: RetroAfric
Released: 2002
Track listing: All For You; Nkebo Baaya; Wiadazi; Munsuro; Nkatie; Odofo; Agriculture; Sunday Mirror; Inflation Calypso; John B Calypso; St Peter's Calypso; Donkey Calypso; Tea Samba; Fom Fom; Asembom Tie M'Ansem; Essie Nana; Don't Mind Your wide; Adainkua Highlife; Bus Conductor; Afi Fro Fro.

E.T. Mensah & The Tempos: All For You

by AAJ Staff
November 9, 2002

Though he hailed from Ghana, E.T. Mensah was a musical ambassador for the world. During the '40s, swing had made its way across the Atlantic and planted itself in the popular dance culture of West Africa. For musicians trained in the European (imperial) tradition of marching bands, early jazz bore obvious appeal--and big bands rose to ...

All For You

By E.T. Mensah

Label: RetroAfric
Released: 1998