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The Formidable Baye Janha - An Incredible Guitar Legend

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This article is intended to help guitar music lovers out there add some Baye Janha style to their own taste and music style. One of the original "guitar gods," and one of the few Gambian guitarist who is still around today, having some of his style incorporated into your own can add a lot of depth to your music. He's best known as an electric guitar bass player, yet throughout his career he's played Afro Manding, Mbalax-Ndaga guitar sound, Malian, Hi-life, Reggae, blues and jazz, you name it.

A guitarist who was used for many Afro Cuban-oriented dates and occasionally played Afro rock, Baye Janha had an appealing sound and was best while performing Khalam and Kora melodic blues. He was most significant to the Afro Manding world in the early '70s, when he recorded often as a sideman for Ifangbondi, later on with the group Karantaba and on isolated tracks on his own sessions. Baye Janha's fine Gibson guitar set in a Jazz Tradition shows what he could really do.

Baye Janha play the guitar like the ancient Khalam of the Wolof tribe of the Senegambia region to a mass effect with his guitar. He was the band leader of the Gelewarr band, the Super Aligators, Faboulous Eagles, Supreme Eagles, Tambato band, the Karanta band and Ifangbondi. His playing technic can be distinctly heard on the SARABA CD/ALBUM recorded in Senegal on Griot records.

Source: AllAfrica.com