A couple tracks off the De Dakar a Cuba on Danse La Rumba album, which aims to draw explicit connections between African and Latin music. It's not exactly unexplored territory (I mean, it's called ...

Banning Eyre has a review of the new record from Bembeya Jazz. The group is back together after 14 years, adding to the roster of reunited African pop bands from the 1960s.

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 ...