Festival Sons d'Hiver : Ebo Taylor & Afrobeat Academy - Photos by JeanSaintJean
Vendredi 4 février dernier, à la salle Jacques Brel à Fontenay Sous Bois, eu lieu un double concert des plus mémorables, avec pour commencer un fantastique hommage à Miles Davis dirigé par Graham Haynes (accompagné, entre autres, de Marco Benevento au claviers et DJ Logic aux platines)... suivi d'un show du guitariste Ghanéen Ebo Taylor (accompagné des funksters de l'Afrobeat Academy).
Notre envoyé spécial JeanSaintJean avait fait le déplacement et nous a ramené plus d'une centaine de Photos pour chacun des concerts. Une session de shooting dans des conditions pas forcément fantastiques (au premier rang, en contre plongée, dans le noir), dont nous avons essayé d'extraire la crème...
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Festival Sons d'Hiver : Bitches Brew Revisited / Ebo Taylor & Afrobeat Academy
Vendredi 4 février salle Jacques Brel à Fontenay Sous Bois - 20h30
Le concert à ne pas manquer en ce début d'année 2011 aura lieu en région parisienne durant le festival de Val de Marne Sons d'Hiver. Il réunira le même soir un bon barouf de jazz psychédélique avec un hommage à Miles Davis par le supergroupe Bitches Brew Revisited (avec, entre autres pointures, Graham Haynes, DJ Logic et Marco Benevento!), ainsi que le retour du guitariste ghanéen Ebo Taylor accompagné des funksters de l'Afrobeat Academy (Poets of Rhythm/Whitefield Brothers...) que nous avions programmé à la Bellevilloise en juillet 2009 dernier!!
Ebo Taylor - Love And Death
(CD/2xLP/Digital) Strut/K7 Strut073CD/LP, 2010-10-25
Ebo Taylor's Love And Death will be released in CD / 2LP / digital formats. He will be touring with Afrobeat Academy beginning in December 2010. Interest in Ebo Taylor's music has grown in recent years with some incredible live shows in Paris and Berlin in 2009, a series of Ghanaian compilations on Soundway Records and Analog Africa and an unexpected sample as Usher lifted a riff from Heaven for his hit with Ludacris, She Don't Know. A new Ebo Taylor album was a natural progression. For new album, I wanted to advance the cause of Afrobeat music. Fela started it and we shouldn't just abandon it. We should push it so it is a standard form of music. The result is a firing new set backed by Afrobeat Academy, a Berlin-based collective featuring members of Poets Of Rhythm, Kabu Kabu (Jimi Tenor collaborators) and Ghanaian legends Marijata. Tracks include new versions of Taylor classics Victory and Love And Death and a selection of new compositions including Kwame, celebrating Ghana's late, lamented leader Kwame Nkrumah.
A musician since the age of six, Ebo Taylor is one of the most achingly honest voices in African music. His songs have a timeless quality to them, and continue to reach new audiences worldwide.
On the eve of his first internationally distributed solo album, Ebo Taylor sat down with the Strut crew to speak about his entrance into the professional music circuit, his interaction with African legends like Fela Kuti and CK Mann, and how he hooked up with Berlin outfit Afrobeat Academy.
Legendary Highlife and Afrobeat guitarist, composer, and arranger Ebo Taylor (b.1936) spent 6 weeks in the summer of 2009 in Berlin, Germany with the Berlin-based afrobeat band Afrobeat Academy. This film gives some special insight into Ebo's life and ideas and features some live clips of the band in Frankfurt, Germany in July 2009.
Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer part 1
Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer part 2
Ebo Taylor and Afrobeat Academy trailer part 3 ...
Ebo Taylor & Afrobeat Academy - Love Is Not Too Far
(Exclusive YouTube video from ParisDjs.com) 2009-08-23
Ebo Taylor, the legendary composer, arranger and musician from Ghana took the stage for the first time in Europe, together with artists of the internationally assigned Afrobeat Academy (featuring musicians from the Poets Of Rhythm, Karl Hector & the Malcouns, Kabu Kabu and Fela's Afrika 70's guitarist Oghene Kologobo), in Paris on July 17th, 2009 (organized by Rockers International & Paris DJs) and in Frankfurt on July 18th, 2009 (organized by Africadelay & Analog Africa).
The exceptional guitar player is considered as one of the most distinguished Highlife, Afro beat and jazz composers of Ghana. Between 1962 and 1965 he studied together with his friend Fela Kuti at the renowned Eric Guilder School of Music in London. As early as the 50th and 60th he caused quite a sensation as the head of the Stargazers Dance Band as well as the Broadway Band. In the early 70th he headed the best known Big Band of Ghana, the 'Uhuru Band' (later called Uhurus) and so formed the Highlife.
Photo by Damien Darricarrere
Since the 70th Taylor produced different albums as solo artist and developed more and more his own, innovative and distinctive style - recognisable for instance on his albums "Ebo Taylor and the Pelicans" or "Twer Nyame". Ebo has been very active in numerous projects as session musician. Besides his solo works, he contributed significantly to the development of music in Ghana, as arranger and producer to the big labels in Ghana, like Essiebons and Gapophone. For these labels, being their musical director, he produced i.e. well known musicians such as C.K. Mann of the Apagya Show Band, a legendary All-Star-Highlife-Funk-Band, or artists like Pat Thomas, Jewel Ackah and Papa Yankson.
Lovers of Afro beat, Highlife and Afro jazz may now wait for the new album Ebo Taylor recorded this summer in Berlin for the Analog Africa label with the same Afrobeat Academy crew of musicians. Thankfully here's an extract from the Paris concert. We should podcast the highlights of this fantastic show quite soon on ParisDJs.com, and might upload some more live videos in the future so stay connected...
The Musicians :
- EBO TAYLOR - guitar, vocals (Ghana)
- EKOW ALABI - drums (Ghana / Kabu Kabu/Jimi Tenor Band, Afrobeat Academy)
- PATRICK FRANKOWSKI - bass (Germany / Kabu Kabu/Jimi Tenor Band)
- J.J. WHITEFIELD - guitar (Germany / Poets of Rhythm, Karl Hector & the Malcouns, Afrobeat Academy)
- THOMAS MYLAND - clavinet, organ, etc (Germany / Poets of Rhythm, Karl Hector & the Malcouns)
- BEN ABARBANEL-WOLFF - tenor & bariton sax (USA / Poets of Rhythm, Karl Hector & the Malcouns, Afrobeat Academy)
- STU KRAUSE - trumpet (Canada / Poets of Rhythm, Karl Hector & the Malcouns)
- OGHENE KOLOGBO - guitar (Nigeria / Fela's Afrika 70, Afrobeat Academy)
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