OK Jazz, later renamed TPOK Jazz (short for Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinois de Jazz), was a Congolese rumba band from the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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Ndombe Opetum (category TPOK Jazz members)
of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the seminal soukous band TPOK Jazz which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1960s through the 1980s...
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Madilu System (category TPOK Jazz members)
Léopoldville, Belgian Congo. He was once a member of the seminal band TPOK Jazz which dominated the Congolese scene from 1960s through 1980s. Beginning...
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Franco Luambo (category TPOK Jazz members)
African music in general, principally as the leader for over 30 years of TPOK Jazz, the most popular and significant African band of its time and arguably...
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Rhythm guitar (section Jazz)
guitars to get a bright, undistorted "jangly" sound. The Soukous band TPOK Jazz additionally featured the unique role of mi-solo, (meaning "half solo")...
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Wuta Mayi (category TPOK Jazz members)
band TPOK Jazz, led by Franco (François Luambo Makiadi), which dominated the Congolese music scene from the 1960s through the 1980s. Since leaving TPOK Jazz...
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Congolese rhumba bandleader and rival Franco Luambo Makiadi who ran the band TPOK Jazz throughout the 1960s, 1970s and '80s. During his career, Tabu Ley composed...
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Josky Kiambukuta (category TPOK Jazz members)
Congolese performing artist, singer, songwriter and composer. As a member of TPOK Jazz he played alongside Franco during their most popular period in the mid-1960s...
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Sam Mangwana (category TPOK Jazz members)
Stars. Mangwana was a member of François Luambo Makiadi's seminal band TPOK Jazz, and Tabu Ley Rochereau's bands African Fiesta, African Fiesta National...
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a Congolese band, and his grandfather Vicky Longomba was a member of TPOK Jazz. Elias started his musical career after high school and co-founded a hip...
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