African Jazz Dance No. 2 - Music

One Of Ghana's Most Prolific Drummers Kofi Ghanaba Guy Warren Kpakpo Kofi Warren Gamaliel Harding Akwei Drummer And Journalist Was Born 4 May 1923 And Died 22 December 2008. Taken From The Journal Of African Music And Popular Culture As A Composer Drummer And Flutist Ghanaba Recorded Several Other Long Playing Records Most Of Them In The 1950s And 1960s Among Them Themes For African Drums 1958 The African Soundz Of Guy Warrren Of Ghana 1960 African Rhythms - The Exciting Soundz Of Guy Warrren And His Talking Drums 1962 Emergent Drums 1963 And Afro-Jazz 1969 . He Became Known In America For Introducing The Obonu Drum To Jazz A Drum Then Referred To As “Talking Drum”. It Had Been Unknown To Jazz Before. Ghanaba Was Among The First To Search For The Creative Possibilities Of Blending/and Re Connecting African-American Jazz With African Or Better Ghanaian Modern Popular As Well As Traditional Music Long Before This Became A Creative Powerhouse For Many Other Musicians From Africa As Well As The Americas. read less