Caravan – Djeli Moussa Diawara
https://amf.didiermary.fr/duke-ellington-caravan-djeli-moussa-diawara/
Cover version of Duke Ellington’s Caravan (recorded + live) by Djeli Moussa Diawara on Kora.
Disclaimer: I produced the album Yékéké (Paris 2010)
This track was recorded and produced earlier.
#Guinea #Jazz #Kora #LiveMusic #AfroJazz #DukeEllington #Caravan
Sékou “Bembeya” Diabaté – Balake (1997)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sekou-bembeya-diabate-balake-1997/
Sékouba Diabaté aka Sékou “Bembeya” Diabaté (born in 1944) is also known as “Dr Diabate” or “Diamond Fingers” and is part of Bembeya Jazz National in Guinea since its launch in 1961 (now as conductor since 2003).
Djeli Moussa Diawara – Autumn Leaves (cover)
https://amf.didiermary.fr/djeli-moussa-diawara-autumn-leaves/
Autumn Leaves cover live – une reprise des Feuilles Mortes
Djeli Moussa Diawara played this song for an event to support the Tunisian Spring a few years ago in Paris…
Tribute to Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure
https://amf.didiermary.fr/tribute-almamy-samore-lafiya-toure/
Guinean band Bembeya Jazz National commemorated Samori Ture (Almamy Samore Lafiya Toure) in their 1969 release Regard sur le passé.
The album draws upon Mandinka Djeli traditions and consists of two epic recordings recounting Ture’s anti-colonial resistance and nation-building. […]
Amazones de Guinée !
https://amf.didiermary.fr/amazones-guinee/
Les Amazones de Guinée, enregistrées en concert à la Mutualité (Paris), en avril 1983, pour l’album “Au cœur de Paris”.
C’est un groupe musical dont les membres sont toutes des femmes soldats dans les forces armées de Guinée. Formé en 1961 sous le nom d’Orchestre féminin de la gendarmerie de Guinée, il a ensuite été […]
Amazones de Guinée – Live at La Paillote
https://amf.didiermary.fr/live-paillote-amazones-guinee/
The band Les Amazones de Guinée played at an event at La Paillote, to celebrate the completion of The British Library Endangered Archives Programme in 2013.
