Ebo Taylor - Love And Death | Live at Moods

📺 Watch the full concert on Qwest TV https://videos.qwest.tv/content/cd09f... 🔔 Subscribe, watch live and join the community of music lovers:    / @qwesttv   💻 Enjoy more than +1,300 full length concerts, premium documentaries and exclusive interviews: https://videos.qwest.tv/ ABOUT THIS VIDEO: Ebo Taylor returned to the spotlight in 2009, to our great pleasure, after Strut Records, Mr Bongo and Superfly Records resurrected a discography that had been poorly distributed in Europe until then. Accompanied by the Saltpond City Band led by his son Henry, who displays great pride in his father, Ebo Taylor presents himself, his eternal hat screwed on a wise old head with more than 80 years experience and mischievous eyes. He doesn’t appear on stage until the twentieth minute, where he performs two long pieces before relaxing in his chair for the next section. His voice has muffled over the years, but it does nothing to obliterate the sacred presence of his character, nor the vitality of his music. On tracks that utilize hypnotic repetition techniques, riffs come in and out while brass solos bear the traces of jazz influence. Ebo Taylor, born in 1936 into a Ghanaian Catholic family, opened himself up to the influences of jazz and funk during a student trip to London between 1962 and 1965. It was there that he befriended Fela Kuti, to whom he is often compared, but his music has always differed from his Nigerian friend’s Afrobeat. It was by combining these ingredients that he would become the main architect of the modernisation of Highlife, the dance music genre which became loved all over in West Africa. Philippe Lesage Production year: 2018 Follow Qwest TV Website: https://www.qwest.tv/ Instagram:   / qwest.tv   Facebook:   / qwesttv   TikTok:   / qwest_tv   Linkedin:   / qwest-tv   🎶 'From Bebop to Hip Hop' 🎤 Qwest TV is Quincy Jones’ premium video streaming service exploring jazz, its global influence, and its many futures. Through premium documentaries, unforgettable live concerts, rare archival footage, and exclusive interviews, Qwest TV celebrates the artists, stories, and movements that shape music history. Curated by music legends and leading experts. Timeless music, endless stories. ✨