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Solomon Linda is most beneficial remembered as the author of “Mbube” (translated as “The Lion”), perhaps one of the most successful tracks to emerge from South Africa. Although Linda documented the first edition along with his group, The Evening Parrots, in 1939, the track became an internationally-recognized traditional when it …

Pianist Chris McGregor shaped this Southern African group in 1962 with Dudu Pukwana (alto), Mongezi Feza (trumpet), Nick Moyake (tenor), Johnny Dyani (bass), and Louis Moholo (drums). In 1963, the Blue Records earned the country’s Greatest Jazz Group honor, but the tensing rules pursuing anti-apartheid uprisings produced life difficult in …