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 ...

An irony of post-1980s world music is that it has sustained an interest in the earlier, belle epoque musical styles of post-colonial Africa, elements of which it reshaped and recalibrated for a global ...

One of the positives that emerged from post-colonial Africa was the willingness of some new governments to actively champion ethnocentric artists. Guinea’s Bembeya Jazz — along with Sengal’s Orchestra ...

BEMBEYA JAZZ at Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), Friday (August 22), 8 pm. Free. 416-973-4000. Rating: NNNNN The recent resurfacing of Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab was surprising enough, but ...

"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 ...