Ebo Taylor is definitive of African music, specifically highlife and West African pop music. The Ghanaian musician passed away at 90 years old, leaving behind a trail of seminal creativity that will always set him apart as an immortal. His music — rolling, complex, accessible, warm, wickedly groovy — fused heritage and potent observations on life, an innate reverence for the past that incorporated timely messages for the present, and an eye for the future.
“[Taylor] was special because he understood highlife both as a…
