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01. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Rosa
02. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Amina Maliza Masomo (Amina Finish Your Studies)
03. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Vigelegele (Ululation)
04. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Flora Na Esta (Flora & Esta)
05. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Helena No. 1
06. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Shida (Hardship)
07. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Leo Nakuonya (Today I Warn You)
08. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Kupenda Ni Matokeo (Love Is The Result)
09. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Helena No. 2
10. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Mary
11. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Ahadi (A Promise)
12. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Siri Ya Nyumbani (A Secret of the Home)
13. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Tamaa Haifai (Greed Is of No Use)
14. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Kubadili Dini (To Change Religion)
15. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Usiamini Binadamu (Don't Trust People)
16. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Marafiki Wabaya (Bad Friends)
17. WESTERN JAZZ BAND - Balaa Limeniandama (Calamity Has Dogged Me)
ARTIST
TITLE
Songs of Happiness, Poison & Ululation - Dar Es Salaam Dancing Club 1973-1975
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
STCD 3052CD STCD 3052CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/4/2012

2011 release. The Western Jazz Band is one of those names known to hardcore African music fanatics but to no one else outside of Africa (a happenstance that's about to change). It was one of the most popular groups in Tanzania in the 1960s and '70s. It took its name from the country's Western Province, where most of its members originated, though they met and formed the group in the coastal city of Dar es Salaam. The term "jazz" indicated that this band played modern music for sophisticated city folk; it wasn't jazz in the American sense but guitar-driven dance music that combined Congolese-style rumba rhythms and the breezy, light-hearted Swahili vocals of the coast. Tanzanians called this style saboso. The 17 tracks on this CD, selected and annotated by East African music expert Douglas Paterson, represent the Western Jazz Band at its peak in the 1970s, when these songs rocked the dance clubs of Dar Es Salaam.