Fernando Trueba's 'playlist': Jazz Soweto

South African music came to the fore with Paul Simon's Graceland , although records like  The Indestructible Beat of Soweto had paved the way by sowing the world with the rhythms of the country.

Music was a very important element in the fight against apartheid . As early as 1959, the King Kong opera-jazz , featuring Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela, was a challenge to the racist regime. Masekela was already forming in the pioneers The Jazz Epistles, with the sax Kipie Moeketsi and the pianist Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim).

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• The timeless Janusz Muniak
• Andrew Hill's innovative jazz

The South African music conquered the world, curiously, with its contagious joy of living, with its rhythms that make the dead dance.

Today's list pays tribute to that music from the aforementioned pioneers to other greats like Chris McGregor, who had his moment with his group Brotherhood of Breath, Dudu Pukwana, Sipho Mabuse or the always vitalist African Jazz Pioneers.

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