Ernest Ranglin & The African Jazz Pioneers

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Ernest Ranglin (born June 19, 1932 in Manchester, Jamaica) is a guitarist whose session work at Studio One helped give birth to the ska genre in the late 1950s. The African Jazz Pioneers is a South African group which espouses the music of the fifties, fusing big band jazz with township marabi sounds. The band has endured, in fact this is the third generation Pioneers, and now has a younger face and a younger sound. Bandleader and saxophonist Bra Ntemi Piliso, who penned most of the Pioneers' songs, opened the field of composition to the band'...read more

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