One of the positives that emerged from post-colonial Africa was the willingness of some new governments to actively champion ethnocentric artists. Guinea’s Bembeya Jazz — along with Sengal’s Orchestra ...

Some time around bebop's coming of age, jazz morphed from a popular music of dance and song into a rarified art form. Critics and historians can debate the details, but the bottom line is that the ...

A couple tracks off the De Dakar a Cuba on Danse La Rumba album, which aims to draw explicit connections between African and Latin music. It's not exactly unexplored territory (I mean, it's called ...