Talk:Highlife/Archive 1

Archive 1

Highlife in jazz

Can be it established that the songs listed in this category owe some debt to highlife music beyond just their titles? Bruce Hornsby recorded "Back in the High Life," a song which other than the title has no evident connection to the genre of music. The same could just as well go for these songs, so perhaps they ought to be glossed with some explanation. Rockettemorton (talk) 04:45, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Lacking any assertion of this I removed the section. RJFJR (talk) 17:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

You might want to reconsider and put back the section you deleted. All four songs/albums mentioned in the section actually do feature African High Life music. For verification I have provided youtube.com & amazon.com links.

• Pharoah Sanders - Highlife
• Pierre Dørge - As leader of New Jungle Orchestra he created a unique and playful combination of traditional and modern jazz with Highlife west-African guitar music. Album review: 1, 2
• Sonny Sharrock - Highlife. "In addition to three full-fledged originals, he covers two traditional folk songs, the West African standard "Highlife" (learned in one of his earliest gigs with drummer Babatunde Olatunji)" (from Allmusic.com)
• Craig Harris - Highlife

Amsaim (talk) 18:54, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

"earlier in this article" does not seem to make sense, is the current article cut from a longer text? If so it should probably be referenced, and this snippet of text should probably not remain since it doesn't seem to relate to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaclu (talk • contribs) 16:28, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Traditional harmonic 9th

What the heck is the "traditional harmonic 9th"? This article defines it as the basis of Highlife, but there is little reference to it on the internet, other that direct quotes of this page! Fig (talk) 09:08, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

I've re-structured the introduction and, in the process, removed that reference to the 9th. But I did that because it wasn't sourced. It actually does get used in the music -- in the example, it's that high F-sharp being used in the second half of the guitar part (the excerpt is in the key of E). NewYorkActuary (talk) 13:40, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

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