PARIS (AP) -- Manu Dibango, who fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music has died with the coronavirus. He was 86. Born in Cameroon, he ...

This week RP celebrates a number of African saxophone kings, including Cameroun's Manu Dibango, South Africans Kippie Moeketsi, Dudu Pukwana and Basil "Mannenburg" Coetze, Nigerian Dexter Johnson, and ...

His debut recording as a leader, 1990's Sam I Am, was named one of the top 10 CDs of the year by New York Times jazz critic Peter Watrous. In 1995, he switched to soprano sax exclusively and formed ...

An African sax legend, famously sampled by Michael Jackson and others, is dead from coronavirus. Rolling Stone reports Manu Dibango died at age 86 on Tuesday after being hospitalized with COVID-19 in ...

Tosan Arugha plays the saxophone almost note perfect — but he plays it differently from how you might expect. The 31-year-old has been dubbed the human saxophone because he makes a sound remarkably ...

The event which took place at Sarius Palm Garden on Saturday and Sunday, November 19-20, 2016 had in attendance musicians and instrumentalists from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Performing hit ...

Karendra Devroop swept aside every obstacle thrown in his path as he wound his way from South Africa to Elizabethtown. The assistant professor of music at Elizabethtown College and budding jazz ...

One of the pioneers of Afro-funk music, the saxophonist Manu Dibango, has died of COVID-19. He was 86 years old, and died in Paris. Internationally, he was best known for his 1972 song "Soul Makossa," ...

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Andreas Loven is a pianist and composer from Oslo, Norway, signed to the acclaimed Norwegian jazz label Losen Records. He departed from his career in engineering, moved to South Africa and ventured ...