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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)

ABDULLAH IBRAHIM

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

Gwen Ansell