TPOK Jazz

CTL-I-0096 · Institution

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TPOK Jazz was Franco Luambo's Kinshasa rumba orchestra: Franco was brought up in Leopoldville (renamed Kinshasa 1966), and 'the band later became Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz, The Almighty OK Jazz, generally known as TPOK Jazz'.

The record

• Also known as: Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinshasa Jazz
• City: Kinshasa

Relationships

• Kinshasa — located in
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Sources

• https://www.allaboutjazz.com/franco-and-le-tpok-jazz-francophonic-africas-greatest-a-retrospective-vol-1-1953-1980-by-chris-may (verification source · master store)

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TPOK Jazz was Franco Luambo's Kinshasa rumba orchestra: Franco was brought up in Leopoldville (renamed Kinshasa 1966), and 'the band later became Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz, The Almighty OK Jazz, generally known as TPOK Jazz'.

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