Results for "Solomon Ilori"

Read "Prestige Records: An Alternative Top 20 Albums" reviewed by Chris May

Along with Alfred Lion's Blue Note and Orrin Keepnews' Riverside, Bob Weinstock's Prestige was at the top table of independent New York City-based jazz labels from the early 1950s until the mid 1960s. Like those other two labels, Prestige built up a profuse catalogue packed with enduring treasures. Originally a record retailer, Weinstock ...

ARTICLE: BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY July 21, 2016

Jazz From Around the World: Africa

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

There is no doubt that African heritage, particularly that of west Africa is at the root of jazz. This is simply factual and is not meant to belittle the contributions of other cultures to its growth and development. In addition, as a genre, it has proven to have a wide universal appeal. For both reasons jazz ...

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African High Life

By SOLOMON ILORI

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Tolani (African Love Song); Ise Oluwa (God's Work Is Indestructible); Follow Me To Africa; Yaba E (Farewell); Jojolo (Look At This Beautiful Girl); Aiye Le (The Troubled World); Gbogbo Omo Ibile (Going Home); Agbamurero (Rhino); Igbesa Aiye (Song Of Praise To God).

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW June 14, 2006

Solomon Ilori And His Afro-Drum Ensemble: African High Life

By CHRIS MAY

Every now and again, a label pulls a previously unissued session out of the vaults and it proves to be a down-by-law number one with a mango. Candid did it earlier in 2006 with Jamaican tenor saxophonist Wilton Gaynair's Africa Calling (London, 1960). Now it's Blue Note's turn with Solomon Ilori's African High Life (Englewood Cliffs, ...