Roots of Black Music in America

Hausa drum and percussion group with solo voices and chorus, Ghana

Alfred Henderson, Gabriel Adderly, Harcourt Symonette, Howard Johnson & Wendell Roker

Ewe singers and percussionists, Anyako, Ghana

Street band & New York City

Four young Wolof women, Gambia

Fresh Creek Dance Band

Dan (Gio) laborers at Bromley, St. Paul River, Liberia

Street drummer "Hank," New Orleans

Baby Dodds

Baoulé festival musicians, Sakassou, Ivory Coast

Baby Dodds

Kpelle bush cutters & Liberia

Coffee sifters at United Africa Corp warehouse, Bamenda, Cameroon

Jamaican construction workers

Dogon singers and musicians, Mali

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

Fon's wives (Cameroon) & Children of Lilly's Chapel School, York, Alabama

Akan women, Ghana

Kumina musicians & Jamaica

Bafut man with five-string harp, Cameroon

Wolof géwël (griot) playing xalam, Senegal

J.D. Short

Two Wolof géwëls (griots) playing xalam, Senegal

Tuareg musicians & Mali

Willie Chapman

Wade Ward

Roscoe Holcomb

Pepe Kroma

Jeffly and Bo, two Bassa men in Gbanga, Central Province

Baoulé man with djourou, Ivory Coast

Maximiliano Valencia

Mandinka balafon players, Liberia

Two Baoulé xylophone players, Ivory Coast

Marimba band, Veracruz & Mexico

Jon Wieh

Rev. Utah Smith

Daddy Hotcakes

Daniel Saunders Brass Band

The Eureka Brass Band

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet

Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic