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A young Franco Luambo playing the six-string guitar on a wooden chair outside a house in Léopoldville in 1956. François Luambo Luanzo Makiadi was born on 6 July 1938 in Sona-Bata [], a town located in then-Bas-Congo Province (now Kongo Central), in what was then the Belgian Congo (later the Republic of the Congo, then Zaire, and currently the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
List of musical chords Name Chord on C Sound # of p.c.-Forte # p.c. #s Quality Augmented chord: Play ...
Formed in 2008, FRANCO had its beginnings as a supergroup with members from iconic Filipino bands, consisting of Franco Reyes (InYo and Frank!) on vocals, Gabby Alipe on guitar, 8 Toleran on guitar, Buwi Meneses (Parokya ni Edgar) on bass guitar, and JanJan Mendoza on drums. [2]
In 1982 Sam Mangwana returned briefly and released an album with Franco called Cooperation. Franco also released several albums with former nemesis Tabu Ley. In 1983 TPOK Jazz toured the United States of America for the first time. That year the song "Non", featuring Madilu System and Franco in alternating lead vocals, was released. [10]
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
The song begins with Franco's mi-solo guitar, he is then joined by rhythm guitarist Gégé Mangaya. Drums (played by Nado Kakoma), congas (played by Dessoin Bosuma) and bass (played by Decca Mpudi) also come in when Mangaya's guitar starts up. Franco pronounces the first lines of the song, followed by the chorus, sung by Madilu System.
The progression is also used entirely with minor chords[i-v-vii-iv (g#, d#, f#, c#)] in the middle section of Chopin's etude op. 10 no. 12. However, using the same chord type (major or minor) on all four chords causes it to feel more like a sequence of descending fourths than a bona fide chord progression.
The following is a list of notable jazz guitar players, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western swing, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. For an article giving a short history, see jazz guitarists .