The African Jazz Pioneers is a South African group that espouses the music of the 1950s, fusing big band jazz with township marabi sounds. Band leader...

development of South African Jazz; deceased Zim Ngqawana – composer, flautist and saxophonist; deceased African Jazz Pioneers National Youth Jazz Band The Blue...

Pioneer Jazz was a Malian band from the 1960s. The band emerged from the city of Bamako after Modibo Keita, the Malian leader, began subsidizing musical...

Dorian. Bowers, Jack 2002. The African Jazz Pioneers: The Best of the African Jazz Pioneers. Review. All About Jazz. Retrieved 6 February 2008. Fessor's...

2007: African Jazz Pioneers 2010: DJ Happy Vibes, Lira 2011: Arielle Dombasle feat. Mokobé (released on her album Diva Latina) 2011: African Ladies (cover...

CD: The Essential Music of South Africa includes tracks by Jennifer Jones and Hugh Masekela, The African Jazz Pioneers, The Havana Swingsters, The Skylarks...

Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz, often simply referred to as African Jazz, was a popular and extremely influential Congolese rumba band from the modern-day...

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...

of African Unity (OAU). In July 2004, the African Union's Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was relocated to Midrand, in South Africa, but the African Commission...

saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961). Cherry...

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2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was...

subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...

multiple local fusions of African metre and western jazz melodies. It uses the melodic and main rhythmic structures of traditional African music, but is typically...

United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in...

early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was one of the players at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions...

aesthetics that accompany it in the world of jazz. African clave The clave used most commonly in Africa, based on a feeling of three. 2-3 clave A musician...

the pedal-operated, drum-kit bass drum. Four on the floor was common in jazz drumming until bebop styles expanded rhythmic roles beyond the basics in...

A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music, although some jazz clubs primarily focus on the study and/or...

Broadway or dramatic jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with jazz music. Vernacular jazz dance incorporates...

improvised suites edited heavily by Teo Macero, the album was made by pioneers of jazz fusion: Corea, Hancock, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul and...

ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova. African American music began incorporating Afro-Cuban musical...

Morris Goldberg is a South African saxophonist who is recognised as one of the early pioneers of Cape Jazz, along with Dollar Brand, Merton Barrow, Winston...

December 1936 – 26 May 1990) was a South African jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset West, South Africa. McGregor grew up in the then Transkei...

An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa. African American-related...

many different styles including classical, blues, rock and jazz, while keeping an African flavour. Tinderwet is a versatile guitarist of the three and...

an American jazz cornet player and bandleader. He was particularly recognized for his playing style and his pioneering use of mutes in jazz. Also a notable...

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo...

African Pop And Rock Songs". Therese Owen, "Joy of Jazz pays tribute to SA pioneers", IOL, 5 September 2014. "Brenda Nokuzola Fassie", South African History...

Chris McGregor and the Brotherhood of Breath: My Life with a South African Jazz Pioneer. Bamberger Books. p. 188. Bamberger, W. C. (2013). Of Fret Rattle...