JAZZIST Uncle Rex has dropped another item on the market. It is his fourth album, called Fellowship, it has already made the Sounds Top 20 first spot, atleast according last week's chat.

After Finger Speech, Coming Home and This Is Me, Uncle Rex, whose real name is Rex Mukubonda, has come with Fellowship.

Widely referred to as the pioneer of jazz music in Zambia, Uncle Rex ranks among the most talented guitarists Zambia has ever produced.

According to his blog, Urex, the shy, down-to-earth, friendly and soft-spoken guitarist earned his experience in the early '70s as a child and continues to mentor young upcoming musicians as well as build his brand to higher heights. There are indeed very few Zambian music artistes who can boast of a career spanning almost four decades.

Uncle Rex is proud to have been instrumental in helping develop budding careers of most of Zambia's young musicians as he featured in the recording of many of their early albums.

Some of these include JK, Joe Chibangu, Lous X, Wille and Nasty D, to mention but a few.

Uncle Rex has been a recipient of various accolades such as KORA nominee for best song in Southern Africa when his "Ziko Lino" song was featured in 2003. He has won 4 Ngoma awards, 2 AZAMI awards and most recently a ZMA award for best jazz album.