Bembeya Jazz National - band/ensemble from Guinea. The year 2002 was a significant one,it marks the first new recording from Guinea's Bembeya Jazz in 14 years. It is also the started an exciting new ...

At the time of Guinea’s independence in 1958, the country’s president, Sekou Toure, had a bold plan for the emerging nation. He established all sorts of performance groups that would promote new ...

This wonderful music did not just appear out of thin air. The high standard of the production is no accident and neither is the shimmering quality of the musicianship. By the time this LP was recorded ...

The 1960s and 1970s are often referred to as the "golden years" of African music. As more and more African countries freed themselves from colonialism, a wave of artists emerged who celebrated their ...

is ‘look at the past’, it is only right that a review of this masterful record should begin with some historical perspective. It was made in Conakry in 1968 when Bembeya Jazz were at the peak of their ...

"Bembeya Jazz" are the first of the great West African bands who used elecric guitars and basses to express the new found euphoria of independence. Based in Guinea and urged on by President Sekou ...

Bembeya Jazz formed back in 1961 in Beyla, a small village in southeastern Guinea. Having grown extremely popular throughout the country, in 1965 it became one of the first bands to receive state ...