BEMBEYA JAZZ NATIONAL – BEMBEYA JAZZ NATIONAL LP – Nr MINT 1985 JAZZ AFROPOP

Bembeya Jazz National
(Disques Espérance Records  1985  ESP8418)

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light dust crackles)

Bembeya Jazz National (originally known as Orchestre de Beyla) is a Guinean jazz group that gained fame in the 1960s for their Afropop rhythms. They are considered one of the most significant bands in Guinean music. Many of their recordings are based on traditional folk music in the country and have been fused with jazz and Afropop styles. Featuring guitarist Sekou “Diamond Fingers” Diabaté, who grew up in a traditional griot musical family, the band won over fans in Conakry, Guinea’s capital city, during the heady days of that country’s newfound independence. Bembeya Jazz fell onto harder times in the 1980s and disbanded for a number of years, but reformed in the late 1990s and toured Europe and North America in the early 2000s.

Bembeya Jazz National is an album by Guinean Jazz group Bembeya Jazz National, released in 1985 by Disques Esperance Records.

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