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The African Jazz Pioneers

Afrika Vukani

By The African Jazz Pioneers

Label: Gallo Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Orlando 2. Bashimane 3. Ingculaza 4. Lasmoney 5. Afrika Vukani 6. Yini Sithandwa 7. Mantonoro 8. Maperepeswa 9. Mpara 10. Marabi 11. Kokoko Vulani.

The Best Of

By The African Jazz Pioneers

Label: Gallo Records
Released: 2002

The African Jazz Pioneers: The Best Of

by Jack Bowers
April 12, 2002

It’s always fascinating to hear how musicians from other countries have taken “America’s music” — Jazz — and adapted it to suit their ethnic and cultural heritage. This is especially true when one considers the music of Africa, one of the primary wellsprings of Jazz’s syncopated rhythmic patterns. Rhythm is what African ensembles are about, an ...

African Jazz Pioneers: Afrika Vukani

by Javier AQ Ortiz
March 1, 2002

Although these days Africa, as well as humanity at large, is rightly concerned about contagions of all sorts, some infections can be quite beneficial. Good music, for example, has always been viral in nature no matter where it comes from, what languages coalesce in it or which influences entwine in its social and cultural genetic codes. ...

The African Jazz Pioneers: The Best Of

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2002

It's always fascinating to hear how musicians from other countries have taken “America's music" - Jazz - and adapted it to suit their ethnic and cultural heritage. This is especially true when one considers the music of Africa, one of the primary wellsprings of Jazz's syncopated rhythmic patterns. Rhythm is what African ensembles are about, an ...