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Feb 27, 2009
The Master Musicians of Jajouka @ Kennedy Center
The Master Musicians of Jajouka with Bachir Attar. Photo by Cherie Nutting, from group website. The Master Musicians of Jajouka were “discovered” by Beat-generation writer Brion Gysin, and later visited by Brian Jones and Timothy Leary on their lysergically-inclined wanderings around Morocco in the 1960s. Leary famously remarked that he had “found” a “four thousand year old rock and roll band” in the foothills of the Rif Mountains below Tangier. While the group’s history…