| Franco African Classics: Very Best Of CDs (2008)
$14.29 He'd been playing music since he was seven years old, and playing professionally with his influential band OK Jazz since the mid-1950s. The late Congolese singer/guitarist/ bandleader was a force of nature.
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| Koffi Olomide Tcha Tcho CD (1994)
$16.85 |
| Les Quatre Etoiles Sangonini CD (1994)
$13.15 |
| Ry-Co Jazz Rumba 'Round Africa CD
$19.55 First off, Rumba 'Round Africa is pretty tremendous musically, full of simple but catchy African rhumba variants recorded in the '60s and featuring endlessly inventive guitarist Jerry Malekani. Secondly, Gary Stewart's excellent liner notes describe another little-known phase in the
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| Nyboma Anicet CD (1995)
Congolese songs
$15.89 |
| Sam Mangwana Sings Dinu Vangu CD (2000)
Congolese album
$15.89 Sam Mangwana and Dino Vangu are veterans of Congolese rumba. They started playing with each other in the late '60s. Here they reunite and bring to light the Golden Era of Congolese rumba.
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| Papa Noel Bel Ami CD (2000)
Congolese songs
$16.85 This excellent sample of his work is taken from the 1984 Bon Samaritain and the 1994 Haute Tension. Of the many Congolese guitarists, there are three that form a triumvirate: Nico, Franco, and Papa Noel.
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| Sam Mangwana Maria Tebbo CD (1995)
Congolese album
$15.89 One album has no horns and shimmers through the gentlest dance music you ever heard. These two LPs from 1978 and 1979 have a pan-African virtuosity as yet unmatched.
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| Ricardo Lemvo Tata Masamba CD (1996)
Congolese music
$10.69 The Cuban-African pop music connection has been going strong almost since the first invasion of 78 rpm phonograph records into Africa. Lately, various Zairean musicians have delved back into the Cuban roots of soukous (formerly known in Africa as rumba)
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| Papa Noel Bana Congo CD (2002) (Import) Sweden
$16.49 There's always been a strong link between Cuban music and Congolese rhumba -- over the years the two have influenced each other in countless ways. African guitarist Papa Noel was always one of the more Cuban-leaning of the rhumba virtuosos,
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| Kekele Congo Life CD (2003)
$16.55 For their second album, Congo Life, the veterans of Congolese rumba who make up Kekele keep very much to the idea of
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| Les Tambours Du Brazza Zangoula CD (2004) (Import) France
$17.29 |
| Music Of The Shi People CD (2005)
$9.29 |
| Samba Ngo Ndoto CD (2004)
$18.25 |
| Papa Wemba 1977-1997 CDs (2004)
$19.19 |