{"id":111188,"date":"2022-09-07T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=111188"},"modified":"2022-09-07T10:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T08:58:37","slug":"gyedublay-ambolley-hilife-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/gyedublay-ambolley-hilife-jazz\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlife veteran Gyedu\u2011Blay Ambolley reinterprets classics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thirty-fifth album and counting, the 75-year-old musician is about to release yet another record, Hi-life Jazz,<\/em> in which he revisits works by John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1947, ten years before Ghana\u2019s independence, Gyedu\u2011Blay Ambolley<\/a> has lived throughout the highlife craze. While a member of the Uhuru Dance Band, he developed his signature Simigwa-do style alongside Ebo Taylor and Sammy Larteh with whom he shared the stage. Yet, the highlife legend didn\u2019t stop there and continues to cultivate his impressive catalogue. Hi-Life Jazz <\/em>will be his 35th album to date released via the German Agogo label.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this latest project, Gyedu\u2011Blay Ambolley has chosen to embrace his love of Afro-soul and admiration for well-known jazz figures. In the nine-track album, he provides both reinterpretation of old classics and brand new compositions where he blends together Afro-American jazz, soul and funk with Ghanaian highlife, enhanced by his signature Simigwa style and powered by polyrhythms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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