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Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party (Deluxe Edition)
by Tony Poole
George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the world and exposed him to a variety of musical styles and percussion techniques. After World War II, he settled in London, where he ...
Black Notes from the Deep
Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Rules; You Know Who You Are; Darker Than the Blue; Rivers of Blood; In Another Time; The Morning After the Night Before; Change Is
Sure to Come; How Many More; Butterfly; A Word to the Wise
African Party
By Ginger Folorunso Johnson & His Afro-Cuban Band
Label: Freestyle Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: I Jool Omo; Adura; Witchdoctor; Ire; Talking Drum; Lord Morocco; A You Momma ; Watusi; Alegre; Hi Life.
Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party
by John Eyles
The release of the compilation album Highlife on the Move: Selected Nigerian & Ghanaian Recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66 (Soundway Records, 2015) threw light on the often-neglected role that the London scene of the fifties and sixties played in the development of Highlife and Afrobeat music, during a time before the term “World Music" had ...
