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

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Sur les traces du Bembeya Jazz
Directed by	Abdoulaye Diallo
Produced by	Association SEMFILMS
Cinematography	Gidéon Vink
Edited by	Gidéon Vink
Music by	Bembeya Jazz, Ségou Bembeya Diabaté, Ali Farka Touré
Release date	2007 (2007)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	Burkina Faso

Synopsis

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

• FESPACO 2007

External links

• BBC review (audio) - Africa at the movies - Fespaco 2007
• African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA)^{[dead link]}

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