Nga Nga
Context
Opening track of Love & Death (Strut, 2010), recorded with the Afrobeat Academy of Berlin. Taylor, active in Ghanaian highlife from the late 1950s, worked with Fela Kuti in London 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.