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Badenya les Freres Coulibaly - Photo by Atelier Images. A row of jembe drummers.

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The Jembe: West Africa’s Famed Goblet Drum

Angel Romero May 29, 2026 No Comments Adama Dramé Amazones: The Women Master Drummers of Guinea Babara Bangoura Badenya Les Frères Coulibaly Ballet Djoliba Ballet National du Burkina Ballet National du Mali Bolokada Conde Burkinan music Désiré Ouattara djembe Djiguiya drumming Ensemble Instrumental National du Mali Famoudou Konaté Farafina Fodéba Keïta Guinean music jembe Les Ballets Africains Les Percussions de Guinée Malian music Mamady Keïta Mohamed Bangoura Moussa Traore Nansady Keita Nimbaya Papa Ladji Camara Salimata Diabaté Seydou Dao Soungalo Coulibaly West African music world fusion world music

(headline image: Badenya les Freres Coulibaly – Photo by Atelier images) The jembe is a rope-tuned, skin-headed goblet drum associated above all with Mandé cultural…

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Les Moncada Chats with conguero and djembefola drummer Michael Pluznick

Les Moncada May 1, 2016 1 Comment batá drum djembe drums jembe Michael Pluznick

Francisco Aguabella once told me, “I do not play the drum, I have lived the drum”. Remembering that phrase, it’s great when one’s daily line…

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