- Partial discography
- References
- External links
{{Refimprove|date=February 2013}}Los Jairas are a folk music band from Bolivia. They have worked with Los Condores. Their work features the charango, a stringed instrument from Bolivia.[1]They were formed in 1965 by Edgar 'Yayo' Jofré, who brought the group together to play at Pena Naira.[{{rp|275}}] One of the early members was Gilbert Favre, founder of the folklore cabaret La Pena Naira in La Paz . Members of the band: - Ernesto Cavour - charango
- Edgar Joffré - voice, drums, zampoña
- Julio Godoy
- Gilbert Favre - quena
Favre was a Swiss jazz player who played the quena with great skill and sensitivity. On several of their albums, they featured Alfredo Dominguez, one of the finest Bolivian guitar players who wrote and composed many songs. His appearance on the album Grito de Bolivia was the highlights of Los Jairas' research into neo-folklore. World Music wrote that {{quote|Around 1965 an influential - and indeed definitive - musical model for the Andes emerged with Los Jairas.... The idea was to form a quartet of charango (Bolivian mandolin), guitar, quena and bombo (drum): instruments that had never been played together before, having had their own seasons in the mountain villages. The quartet arranged the music to show off each of the instruments' solo and group possibilities.... they forged a new melodic and rhythmic style... }}Partial discography- Los Jairas
- Edgar Joffre - Los Jairas
- Grito de Bolivia- Los Jairas (1967)
- Sempre con...Los Jairas (1969)
- Edgar "Yayo" Joffre y Los Jairas (1969)
- La Flute Des Andes (1970)
- Lo Mejor de los Jairas (1974)
- Los Jairas en vivo (1976)
- Canto a la viva (1978)
- Al Pueblo de mis Ancestros (1992)
References 1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.freezingblue.com/iphone/flashcards/printPreview.php?fileid=95621 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-01-31 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130216023036/http://www.freezingblue.com/iphone/flashcards/printPreview.php?fileid=95621 |archivedate=2013-02-16 |df= }}
External links- No Hay Revolucion Sin Canciones: Bolivian Nationalism and its Journey to the World Stage
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