Franco & Le Tpok Jazz

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TPOK Jazz, short for Tout Puissant Orchestre Kinshasa, literally meaning "the all-powerful Kinshasa band" in French, originally known as OK Jazz, was a Congolese rumba band, founded by Jean Serge Essous and Francois Luambo Makiadi (Franco) in the 1950s. The original name, OK Jazz, comes from a Kinshasa bar called the OK Bar named after the bar's proprietor "Oscar Kashama", but is also been said to refer to Orchestre Kinois. OK Jazz quickly became one of the two giants of Congolese popular music in the mid-20th century, along with Grand Kalle & l'African Jazz. Many musical stars emerged from one or both of these bands. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Francophonic: "On entre O.K." (disc 1)

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Franco Phonic

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Francophonic: "Tout puissance" (disc 2)

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Francophonic: "Tout puissance"

FRANCOphonic

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Francophonic: "On entre O.K."

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Edition Populaires

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Francophonic CD1: 'On entre O.K.'

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Francophonic CD2: 'Tout puissance'

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Francophonic, Vol. 2

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