The opening minutes of the excellent 2007 documentary, “Sur les traces du Bembeya Jazz,” about the great Guinean group, Bembeya Jazz. The intro is brilliant for showing the band members in their prime (in 1979) and now years later. [I had the pleasure of seeing them play in London around 2003. They still had it.]
Below is a clip of them performing in 1979:
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