This 10” LP, issued by Decca in the UK (LF 1054) and London in the US (LPB 431), was probably the first 33 rpm record to feature black Sou...

It dawned on me a few days ago… why not devote an Electric Jive post to the groovy instrumental sounds that made black South African part...

Every time I visit Kenya and Tanzania I can hear its’ contemporary music still echoing strains of earlier seventies and eighties roots. T...

Reggie Msomi, the legendary composer, arranger, producer, guitarist, saxophonist and more, was, in my opinion, one among a handful of S...

Booklet promoting their last South African Tour before going into exile in 1964. From left to right Dudu Pukwana, Monty Weber, Ch...

Just a few days past the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba it is fitting to make a nod to the Congo sound of the s...

A big thank you to Donald Swanepoel who recently found this 1977 album featuring Samson Mthombeni and the Gazankulu Sisters. Some tracks by...