African Jazz
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This is an article about an orchestra. For information on jazz from Africa, see African jazz.
African Jazz was perhaps the first full-time, professional orchestra in what was then called Belgian Congo now Democratic Republic of the Congo). Among their most popular songs was "Independence Cha Cha Cha" (1960 the pan-African hit which, like much of their recorded output, used Latin dance rhythms like the Cuban chachachá.