| Highlife | ||||
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| Released | Early August 1963[1] | |||
| Recorded | April 1963 Webster Hall, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 36:55 | |||
| Label | Colpix CP 456 | |||
| Producer | Jack Lewis | |||
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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]
- ^ Billboard, August 31, 1963.
- ^ Randy Weston catalog, accessed August 15, 2012.
- ^ Highlife liner notes, Randy Weston discography, accessed June 20, 2016.