Jazz Articles about Kekele

Kekele: Kinavana

by Norman Weinstein
March 20, 2006

This extraordinary album of Congolese rumbas from a quintet of musical veterans with about 200 years of musical experience among them is an enthralling musical lesson. As much as the rumba is usually identified as quintessentially Cuban, it has historic roots in the Congo. When Congolese music fans began seriously listening to recordings of Cuban rumba in the '50s, they had the uncanny sense that their own musical heritage was returning to them in a transfigured form. The rumba swept ...