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...

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...

Léopoldville, Belgian Congo. He was once a member of the seminal band TPOK Jazz which dominated the Congolese scene from 1960s through 1980s. Beginning...

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...

guitars to get a bright, undistorted "jangly" sound. The Soukous band TPOK Jazz additionally featured the unique role of mi-solo, (meaning "half solo")...

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...

and vocalist. He was a member of François Luambo Makiadi's seminal band TPOK Jazz, and Tabu Ley Rochereau's band Afrisa International. He was born in Bukavu...

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...

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...

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...