Manu Dibango, "Wakafrika" (1994)

NICK DERISO: Dibango has a perfectly balanced feel for both the lithe American jazz form but also the murkier pleasures of traditional African music.

What's almost criminal is that he couldn't elicit a second glance on your average U.S. sidewalk. That, despite the fact that Dibango, 60 at the time of this recording, scored his first international hit in 1972, the million-selling "Soul Makossa."

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