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Jiriba Band was created in the summer of 2014 by Jacob Montén (guitar) and Adam Cederquist (drums). The music is influenced by Californian jamband musik and rythms and melodies from the roots of west Africa, Mali. After recording the debut album Jiriba welcomed Markus Hill to play bass in the band. 
The release party is at Babajan Bar on the 25th of November and it´s free entrance all evening!

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[APWW #427] [Originally aired 2011]
Afropop Worldwide's program, "The Story of Bembeya Jazz," packs a lot of history--musical and political--into a single hour. But of course, there's lot's more to say about this, one of the most significant bands in West Africa's modern history. This feature provides links to three of the background interviews we relied on in making this program, including with VOA radio pioneer Leo Sarkisian, who was present for the band's very first session. First is Sekou "Bembeya" Diabate, the band's star guitarist and defining personality. Then comes vocalist Salifou Kaba, who joined Bembeya in 1963. Finally, Eric Charry is the author of Mande Music (University of Chicago Press, 2000), the most extensive available English-language text on the music of the Mande people. The book contains lots of background on guitar bands like Bembeya Jazz, and this interview focuses particularly on Guinea and the political environment in which the band thrived, a subject that neither Sekou nor Salifou was particularly keen to discuss. [pgm:427]

The Story of Bembeya Jazz

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Jiriba Band was created in the summer of 2014 by Jacob Montén (guitar) and Adam Cederquist (drums). The music is influenced by Californian jamband and rythms and melodies from the roots of west Africa, Mali. After recording the debut album Jiriba welcomed Markus Hill to play bass in the band. 
The release party is at Babajan Bar on the 25th of November and it´s free entrance all evening!

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