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Long-Lost Paradigm-Shifting LPs By South Africas Malombo Jazz Reissued article by Chris May, published on May 16, 2023 at All About Jazz. Find more Multiple Reviews articles

It is about an hour’s brisk walk from Jeppe High School for Boys in the east of Johannesburg to the Kohinoor record store in the inner city. More than 20 years ago, it was a trip Mxolisi Makhubo and his small group of hip-hop loving, self-proclaimed “outsiders” at their macho school made about once a month. “We used to take our bus fare and save it up for a month to buy records with and we’d walk to town, which is where we’d catch minibus taxis back [home] to Soweto,” the now 37-y...