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68 relations: A. B. Crentsil, ABC-CLIO, Akan people, Alex Konadu, Amakye Dede, Arpeggio, Awurama Badu, Bell pattern, Ben Brako, Bobby Benson, C. K. Mann, Calypso music, Charles Amoah, Clave (rhythm), Craig Harris, Cuba, Daasebre Gyamenah, Daddy Lumba, E. T. Mensah, Ebo Taylor, F-Stops, Fante people, Foxtrot, George Darko, Ghana, Guajeo, Guitar, Guy Warren, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, High Life (Wayne Shorter album), Highlife (Sonny Sharrock album), Horn section, Jazz, Joe Mensah, John Collins (musician/researcher), K. Frimpong, Kakaiku, King Bruce, Kojo Antwi, Koo Nimo, Kru people, Kwabena Kwabena, Liberia, Makossa, Marcus Miller, Music genre, Music of Africa, Nana Acheampong, Nana Ampadu, Nigeria, ..., Ofori Amponsah, Osibisa, Paa Kow, Paapa Yankson, Palm-wine music, Pat Thomas (highlife musician), Pharoah Sanders, Pierre Dørge, Randy Weston, Rejoice (Pharoah Sanders album), Samuel Owusu, Seperewa, Sierra Leone, Singing, Sonny Sharrock, The Gambia, Verve Records, Wayne Shorter. Expand index (18 more) »
A. B. Crentsil
Alfred Benjamin "A.
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ABC-CLIO
ABC-CLIO, LLC is a publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
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Akan people
The Akan are a meta-ethnicity predominantly speaking Central Tano languages and residing in the southern regions of the former Gold Coast region in what is today the nation of Ghana.
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Alex Konadu
Alex Konadu (1948 – 18 January 2011) was a Ghanaian guitarist who was known for his contribution to the Highlife tradition.
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Amakye Dede
Dan Amakye Dede (born 5 January 1958) is a Ghanaian musician.
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Arpeggio
A broken chord is a chord broken into a sequence of notes.
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Awurama Badu
Awurama Badu (Ewurama Badu) was a Ghanaian highlife musician born in 1945 and from Banko in the Sekyere East District of the Ashanti Region.
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Bell pattern
A bell pattern is a rhythmic pattern of striking a hand-held bell or other instrument of the Idiophone family, to make it emit a sound at desired intervals.
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Ben Brako
Ben Brako (born 20 May 1952) is a Ghanaian highlife artiste.
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Bobby Benson
Bernard Olabinjo "Bobby" Benson (11 April 1922 – 14 May 1983) was an entertainer and musician who had considerable influence on the Nigerian music scene, introducing big band and Caribbean idioms to the Highlife style of popular West African music.
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C. K. Mann
Charles Kofi Amankwaa Mann (1936 – March 20, 2018), known as C. K. Mann, was a Ghanaian highlife musician and producer.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
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Charles Amoah
Charles Amoah (born 28 February 1975) is a retired Ghanaian international footballer.
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Clave (rhythm)
The clave is a rhythmic pattern used as a tool for temporal organization in Afro-Cuban music.
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Craig Harris
Craig S. Harris (born September 10, 1953) is a jazz trombonist and composer who has been a major figure in the jazz avant-garde movement since his stint with Sun Ra in 1976.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Daasebre Gyamenah
Daasebre Gyamenah (Akan: Daasebrε Gyamena), was a Ghanaian highlife musician who became very popular for his hit album Kokooko (1999) which featured Lord Kenya.
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Daddy Lumba
Daddy Lumba (born Charles Kwadwo Fosuh, 29 September 1964) is a Ghanaian singer who was based in Cologne, Germany.
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E. T. Mensah
Emmanuel Tettey Mensah, best known as E. T. Mensah (31 May 1919 – 19 July 1996), was a Ghanaian musician who was regarded as the "King of Highlife" music.
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Ebo Taylor
Ebo Taylor (born 1936) is a Ghanaian guitarist, composer, bandleader, producer and arranger focusing on highlife and afrobeat music.
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F-Stops
F-Stops is an album by American jazz trombonist and composer Craig Harris recorded in 1993 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.
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Fante people
Originally, Fante refers to tiny states within 50 miles radius of Mankessim.
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Foxtrot
The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor.
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George Darko
George Darko (born 1951 in Akropong) is a Ghanaian highlife musician, who introduced the Burger-highlife with his first hit "Ako ti brofo" (Even Parrots speak English), which was very popular in the early 1980s.
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Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
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Guajeo
A guajeo (Anglicized pronunciation: wa-hey-yo) is a typical Cuban ostinato melody, most often consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Guy Warren
Guy Warren of Ghana, also known as Kofi Ghanaba (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008), was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and as a member of The Tempos, alongside E. T. Mensah.
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Gyedu-Blay Ambolley
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer.
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High Life (Wayne Shorter album)
High Life is an album by jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter that was released on Verve Records in 1995.
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Highlife (Sonny Sharrock album)
Highlife is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock.
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Horn section
A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Joe Mensah
Joe Mensah (died 2003) was a Ghanaian singer and musician.
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John Collins (musician/researcher)
John Collins is a UK-born guitarist, harmonica player and percussionist who first went to Ghana as a child in 1952 for a brief period and later became involved in the West African music scene after returning to Ghana in 1969.
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K. Frimpong
Alhaji Kwabena Frimpong (died 18 October 2005) was a Ghanaian highlife singer.
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Kakaiku
Kakaiku was a popular Ghanaian band in the 1960s and 1970s.
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King Bruce
King Bruce (3 June 1922 – 12 September 1997) was a Ghanaian composer, band leader and musician.
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Kojo Antwi
Kojo Antwi, also known as "Mr.
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Koo Nimo
Koo Nimo (born Kwabena Boa-Amponsem on 3 October 1934, baptized Daniel Amponsah) is a leading folk musician of Palm wine music or Highlife music from Ghana.
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Kru people
The Kru or Kroo are a West African ethnic group who originated in eastern Liberia and migrated and settled along various points of the West African coast, notably Freetown, Sierra Leone, but also the Ivorian and Nigerian coasts.
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Kwabena Kwabena
Kwabena (born 17 October 1978 in Buabuashie in Greater Accra) is a Ghanaian musician, guitarist,and an accomplished draftsman.
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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Makossa
Makossa is a noted Cameroonian popular urban musical style.
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Marcus Miller
Marcus Miller (born William Henry Marcus Miller Jr.; June 14, 1959) is an American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a bass guitarist.
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Music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.
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Music of Africa
The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.
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Nana Acheampong
Ernest 'Owoahene' Nana Acheampong, popularly known as Nana Acheampong, is one of the most popular musicians ever in Ghana.
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Nana Ampadu
Nana Ampadu (born March 31, 1945) is a Ghanaian highlife musician credited with numerous popular highlife tracks and he is known to have composed over 800 songs.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Ofori Amponsah
Samuel Ofori Amponsah (born March 2, 1974), also known by the name Mr.
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Osibisa
Osibisa are a Ghanaian Afrobeat band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians.
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Paa Kow
Paa Kow (Enyan Denkyira, Ghana) is a Ghanaian Highlife and Afro-Fusion drummer and composer.
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Paapa Yankson
Benjamin Paapa Kofi Yankson, known as Paapa Yankson (22 June 1944 – 21 July 2017) was a Ghanaian highlife singer, songwriter, and producer.
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Palm-wine music
Palm-wine music (known as maringa in Sierra Leone) is a West African musical genre.
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Pat Thomas (highlife musician)
Pat Thomas is a Ghanaian highlife musician.
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Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders (born October 13, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.
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Pierre Dørge
Pierre Dørge (born 28 February 1946) is a Danish avant-garde jazz guitarist.
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Randy Weston
Randy Weston (born April 6, 1926, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz pianist and composer of Jamaican parentage.
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Rejoice (Pharoah Sanders album)
Rejoice is a double album led by saxophonist Pharoah Sanders recorded in 1981 and released on the Theresa label.
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Samuel Owusu
Samuel Kwame Owusu (born 28 March 1996) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serbian club Čukarički.
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Seperewa
The Seperewa, also known as Seprewa or Sanku, is a Ghanaian (specifically Akan) harp-lute, similar to the Dagaare/Sisaala koriduo, the Mandé kora, the Guere duu, and Baule aloko.
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Sonny Sharrock
Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock (August 27, 1940 – May 25, 1994) was an American jazz guitarist.
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The Gambia
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Verve Records
Verve Records, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others.
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Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlife
