djembe

He closed this song with a dynamic djembe beat, moving through multiple time signatures.

To help him make ends meet, the drummer Billy Hart got him a gig playing the djembe for a physical therapy dance class at a nursing home in Harlem.

Prospering Backyards invited percussionist Rude Calderón to play a djembe drum, because they feel the process is a form of healing for the earth.

In the center were percussion instruments of all kinds from shakers to bongos and djembe drums.

Partly that was for replicability: They didn’t want any opera company stymied by the requirement of a special banjo or djembe player.