Highlife (Randy Weston album)

Highlife (full title Music from the New African Nations featuring the Highlife) is an album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston recorded in 1963 and originally released on the Colpix label.^[2] Weston had traveled to Africa for the first time in 1961 for a series of concerts in Lagos, Nigeria, sponsored by the American Society of African Culture, and the album is inspired by the music of the African continent, in particular the highlife genre of West Africa.^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 5 stars, with its reviewer Scott Yanow stating: "Highly recommended, these sessions are among the recorded highpoints of Randy Weston's productive career."^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Randy Weston except as indicated

"Caban Bamboo Highlife" - 2:46
"Niger Mambo" (Bobby Benson) - 5:03
"Zulu" - 4:42
"In Memory Of" - 7:46
"Congolese Children" - 2:34
"Blues to Africa" - 6:23
"Mystery of Love" (Guy Warren) - 7:41

Personnel

Randy Weston - piano
Ray Copeland - trumpet, flugelhorn
Jimmy Cleveland, Quentin Jackson - trombone
Julius Watkins - French horn
Aaron Bell - tuba
Budd Johnson - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Booker Ervin - tenor saxophone
Peck Morrison - bass
Charlie Persip - drums
Frankie Dunlop - drums, percussion
Archie Lee - congas, percussion
George Young - percussion
Melba Liston - arranger

References

^ Billboard, August 31, 1963.
^ Randy Weston catalog, accessed August 15, 2012.
^ Highlife liner notes, Randy Weston discography, accessed June 20, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed August 15, 2012.

v t e Randy Weston
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Some titles have been shortened.
As leader or co-leader	Cole Porter in a Modern Mood (1954) The Randy Weston Trio (1955) Get Happy (1955) With These Hands... (1956) Trio and Solo (1955–56) Jazz à la Bohemia (1956) The Modern Art of Jazz (1956) Piano á la Mode (1957) New Faces at Newport (split with Lem Winchester, 1958) Little Niles (1958) Destry Rides Again (1959) Live at the Five Spot (1959) Uhuru Afrika (1960) Highlife (1963) Randy (1964; aka, African Cookbook, Atlantic) Berkshire Blues (1965) Monterey '66 (1966) African Cookbook (Polydor, 1969) Niles Littlebig (1969) Blue Moses (1972) Tanjah (1973) Carnival (1974) Blues to Africa (1974) The Healers (with David Murray, 1987) The Spirits of Our Ancestors (1991) Khepera (1998)
With others	Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1984) Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (1972)

v t e Booker Ervin
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except when this was delayed
As leader	The Book Cooks (1960) Cookin' (1960) That's It! (1961) Exultation! (1963) Gumbo! (with Pony Poindexter, 1963) The Freedom Book (1963) The Song Book (1964) The Blues Book (1964) The Space Book (1964) Groovin' High (1963–64) The Trance (1965) Setting the Pace (with Dexter Gordon, 1965) Heavy!!! (1966) Structurally Sound (1966) Booker 'n' Brass (1967) The In Between (1968) Tex Book Tenor (1968) Back from the Gig (with Horace Parlan, 2LP, 1963/68)
With Charles Mingus	Jazz Portraits: Mingus in Wonderland (1959) Mingus Ah Um (1959) Mingus Dynasty (1959) Blues & Roots (1959) Mingus (1960) Mingus at Antibes (1960 [1976]) Reincarnation of a Lovebird (1960) Oh Yeah (1961) Tonight at Noon (1961 [1964]) Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963)
With others	Hot Line (Bill Barron, 1962) Out Front! (Jaki Byard, 1964) Urge (Ted Curson, 1965) Cracklin' (Roy Haynes, 1963) In the Land of the Giants (Eric Kloss, 1969) Havin' a Ball at the Village Gate (Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan, 1963) Up & Down (Horace Parlan, 1961) Happy Frame of Mind (Horace Parlan, 1963) The Exciting New Organ of Don Patterson (Don Patterson) Hip Cake Walk (Don Patterson, 1964) Patterson's People (Don Patterson, 1964) Tune Up! (Don Patterson, 1964 [1971]) Soul People (Sonny Stitt, 1964) The Quest (Mal Waldron, 1961) Highlife (Randy Weston, 1963) Randy/African Cookbook (Randy Weston, 1964) Monterey '66 (Randy Weston, 1966 [1994])

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