Solomon Ilori & His Afro-Drum Ensemble

condition (record/cover): NM / EX (slightly bent corner)

Nigerian drummer, singer and composer Solomon Ilori, best known to jazz collectors for his Blue Note work, bringing Yoruba percussion and song directly into the early-sixties jazz world - no exotica filter, no dilution, the real language presented on its own terms. Hypnotic drum choirs, talking drum, call-and-response vocals: African roots music offered to a jazz audience years before the spiritual jazz wave made such connections fashionable, and a document of how the traffic between continents actually sounded at the source. Ilori's small discography is treasured by those who know it, and rightly. 12" EP format, and a genuinely interesting object for the Afro-jazz shelf.