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

Bembeya Jazz 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 b ...

Synopsis

In 1961, in a small village in the middle of the

Guinea Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...

n 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 An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

, symbolizing the Guinean

revolution In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...

Ahmed Sékou Touré Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ; January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was am ...

, managed to rock the whole African continent with their music. Forty years later, we go back to its roots.

Awards

* FESPACO 2007

External links

BBC review (audio)
- Africa at the movies - Fespaco 2007 * Creative Commons-licensed documentary films Burkinabé documentary films Documentary films about jazz music and musicians 2000s French-language films 2007 documentary films 2007 films Documentary films about African music {{music-documentary-film-stub