Founded in 1964 as NUTA Jazz,Juwata is the oldest band currently active in Tanzania and has been one of the most prominent groups ever since. The band was formed under the wings of the National Workers Union, hence their original name NUTA Jazz Band, and provided the model for many of the bands to come in the seventies and eighties. The music and dance clubs that had dominated the forties and fifties became increasingly obsolete during the sixties. Read more on Last.fm