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 ...

Many of us know the great guitarists of Africa: Mali’s Ali Farka Toure, Guinea’s Sekou “Diamond Fingers” Diabate, the great bass players of South Africa (Bakhiti Kumalo who played with Paul Simon on ...

This enchanting and exquisitely beautiful album, originally released in 1983, features four of the top electric guitarists of the pre-world music "golden years" of west African music, performing ...

In West Africa, modern guitar playing first developed in Guinea thanks to Papa Diabate and three of his brothers who formed the group African Virtuoses, whose 1970s and 1980s recordings are newly ...

**** Sona Diabate, Girls of Guinea (Shanachie); ***** Stella Chiwese, Ambuya? (Shanachie): Men may dominate the African music sections in U.S. record racks, but these two releases from Shanachie’s ...