East Africa: Jazz - Much Loved but Misunderstood Music Genre

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For a continent that had a heavy hand in orchestrating what has come to be known as "Jazz," East Africa music lovers are yet to discover the fundamentals of jazz and are being exploited by "jazz show" organisers.

Promoters have taken advantage of the naïve and unsuspecting middle class in the past 10 years, by staging shows under the "Jazz" prefix only to showcase instrumentalists.

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