Eyi Wala Dong

Guy Warren · 1956 · Piste de Africa Speaks, America Answers (Decca)

Context

Eyi Wala Dong appears on Africa Speaks, America Answers, an album by Ghanaian drummer Guy Warren released by Decca in 1956. Wikipedia states that Bert Kaempfert covered the theme under the title "Eyi Wala Dong (An African's Prayer)" in 1962.

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

• Africa Speaks (1956)
• Ode to a Stream (1956)
• The High Life (1956)
• Invocation of the Horned Viper (1956)

Sources

• jazzmusicarchives.com
• EN: Guy Warren

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