Sur les traces du Bembeya Jazz

Sur les traces du Bembeya Jazz (In the Steps of Bembeya Jazz) is a 2007 documentary about the Guinean band Bembeya Jazz.

Sur les traces du Bembeya Jazz
Directed byAbdoulaye Diallo
Produced byAssociation SEMFILMS
CinematographyGidéon Vink
Edited byGidéon Vink
Music byBembeya Jazz, Ségou Bembeya Diabaté, Ali Farka Touré
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryBurkina Faso

Synopsis edit

In 1961, in a small village in the middle of the Guinean tropical forest, a music band is born. This band will become one of the biggest orchestras of modern Africa. It is Bembeya Jazz. This orchestra, symbolizing the Guinean revolution of Ahmed Sékou Touré, managed to rock the whole African continent with their music. Forty years later, we go back to its roots.

Awards edit

  • FESPACO 2007

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