Jeremy of Naijablog forwarded me this Youtube video of two recorded songs by  Zeal Onyia, the master Nigerian trumpet player from the 1950s of whom Louis Armstrong on a visit to Nigeria in 1961 was to have asked:  “Who is that hip cat?”

In the video you can hear two of Onyia’s highlife inflected compositions, “Money Trouble” and “Lumumba.”  The recordings you hear “were taken from a tape of tape that was originally recorded off an old 78 rpm record given to Don [Maxwell, the guy who originally uploaded them to the internet] by Zeal Onyia himself in 1964.”

You can read the story how these two recordings came to be in the possession of Maxwell on his site Abstract Concrete Works.