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Key figure: Musicians Basil Coetzee, Pat Matshikiza, Selby Ntuli, Sipho Mabuse, Alec Khaoli and Kippie Moketsi with producer Rashid Vally in 1975. (As-Shams Archive)

Rashid Vally: A visionary whose record labels shaped the jazz scene

Rashid Vally gave a voice to the new black jazz of the Seventies — and on a shoestring

  • Eyaaz
6 min read

As-Shams was where jazz was happening in South Africa

Record label owner and producer Rashid Vally was so unobtrusive in his dealings with artists that only music nerds recognise his name

  • Eyaaz
3 min read