Expect the Utah Jazz to look up and down the market to trade two key veterans in their backcourt this offseason. According to NBA insider Tony Jones of The Athletic, the Jazz will try "pretty hard ...

Arguably the most influential African band of the second half of the 20th century, TPOK Jazz were led by "Le Grand Maître" Luambo Makiadi "Franco", the formidable guitarist, singer and composer ...

Nicknamed “the wizard of the guitar” and “the lord of Congolese rumba”, Franco significantly influenced African music and left an indelible legacy. With his group, TPOK Jazz, he created a unique sound ...

34 years after his death, Franco Luambo Makiadi's name still looms large over the world of Rhumba. Franco and his baby, the band TPOK Jazz are an indelible part of Rhumba. And while the band ...

The son of L’Okanga La Ndju Pene Luambo Makiadi, better known simply as Franco, was trying to explain the fallout between the musicians and family members that led to the collapse of the Tout Puissant ...

Exactly 33 years ago, the Congolese Rhumba music wizard breathed his last on October 12 1989 in Mont-Godinne, in Belgium. He was a major figure in 20th-century Congolese music, and African music in ...

Born in Kinshasa in 1938, Franco continues to inspire many upcoming Rhumba musicians. He was the master of African Rhumba and led the most popular and respected African Orchestra TPOK Jazz Band.

Franco Luambo Makiadi had a brother, Bavon Marie Marie. The two brothers played guitar, composed songs and led bands. And, like they shared so much in common, so it was a woman – Marie-José ...

3. Franco Luambo Congolese musician Franco Luambo during one of his performances. Photo: @MacOtani Source: Twitter Franco led TPOK Jazz for more than three decades. TPOK Jazz was a prolific Congolese ...

The face of this style was Franco Luambo Makiadi, or Franco for short, with his orchestra Oké Jazz (later TPOK Jazz). If the fiesta style was melodious and more refined in its arrangements, then the ...