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Orlando Julius & The Heliocentrics · 2014 · Album Jaiyede Afro (Strut), plage de 11 min 16

Context

Longest track on Jaiyede Afro (11 min 16 s), recorded with the Heliocentrics in London. Julius, born in Ikole in 1943, had been blending highlife, soul, and rhythm and blues since the 1960s.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz. Among the origins and influences of Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk.

By the same artist

• Buje Buje (2014)
• Love Thy Neighbour (2014)
• Jagua Nana (1965)

Sources

• EN: Jaiyede Afro
• EN: Orlando Julius

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