The Kumasi Trio record in London

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1. Story
2. Kwame Asare — Jacob Sam — travels from the Gold Coast to London and records for Zonophone's West African series, producing among other sides "Yaa Amponsah", the earliest guitar-band highlife recordings. The instrument is European, the studio is in London, the right-hand technique is reported to derive from the Akan seperewa by way of Kru seamen who learned guitar aboard ship, and the music is Akan. It is the Atlantic circuit running in the direction the standard account of musical diffusion rarely describes.
3. Knowledge
4. Guitar
5. Sound recording
6. The Kru seafarers
7. Highlife
8. The Kumasi Trio record in London
9. Connections
10. Sound recording
11. Highlife
12. The Kru seafarers
13. Guitar
14. Electrical recording
15. Race records
16. Radio diffusion
17. Field recording
18. Edison demonstrates recorded and reproduced sound
19. Berliner patents the gramophone
20. The first jazz record is made
21. KDKA broadcasts
22. Victor and Columbia adopt electrical recording
23. The Kumasi Trio record in London
24. The Kru seafarers
25. West Africa
26. Guitar
27. The Kumasi Trio record in London
28. West Africa
29. Highlife
30. The Kumasi Trio record in London
31. European lute
32. Blues
33. Highlife
34. W. C. Handy hears a guitarist at Tutwiler station
35. The Kumasi Trio record in London
36. Evidence
37. Kwame Asare, known as Jacob Sam, born at Cape Coast in 1903, formed the Kumasi Trio and recorded in London for Zonophone's West African series in 1928, including "Yaa Amponsah" — the earliest guitar-band highlife recordings; his picking style derived from the two-finger technique of the seperewa and he was taught guitar by a Kru seaman. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this collection description and corroborating reference entries; the collection page was not opened, no disc or matrix number was checked, and retrieved sources differ on how many sides were recorded.