This 1996 letter written by producer Joel Rubiner to Joe Ambrose and Frank Rynne provides numerous details and facts that shed much-needed light on the unfortunate confusion surrounding the Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri's "Joujouka" and their own meddling into the affairs of The Master Musicians of Jajouka, whose sole, legitimate hereditary leader is Bachir Attar.

Although the illiterate painter Mohamed Hamri pronounced and spelled the name as "Joujouka", today the commonly-used and widely-accepted spelling for both the officially-recognized group of Master Musicians and the small mountain village itself is Jajouka. It should also be pointed out that although Brion Gysin and his friend Mohamed Hamri as well as William Burroughs originally spelled the name of the group as "Joujouka", whose undisputed Leader was Bachir Attar's father, Hadj Abdesalam Attar, Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs later used and corrected their spelling as The Master Musicians of Jajouka in their later writings.

Furthermore, in 1968, when Brian Jones lead-guitarist of the Rolling Stones recorded several hours of this music in Jajouka (later finished abroad), for the purpose of being factually correct, it was solely a Brian Jones recording and not the Rolling Stones as a group who actually produced and recorded this music in 1968. It was posthumously released in 1971 on an LP album two years after Brian Jones' untimely death by drowning in 1969. The original LP album's title was Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan At Joujouka. Read the original report about Brian Jones' death on the BBC.co.uk site.

In 1995 The Rolling Stones re-released this same original Brian Jones recording with a corrected title: Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka on the Point Records label. The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by their hereditary leader Bachir Attar recorded with The Rolling Stones in Tangier, Morocco during the summer of 1989. The three-day recording sessions were in the Palais Ben Abbou in the Kasbah, and the song recorded was "Continental Drift", released on the Stones' Steel Wheels album as an LP in August 1989 and later on CD in 1995.

These are the true facts which hopefully will end once and for all any confusion and distortions about the Master Musicians from this tiny village in Morocco. There is only one legitimate group of Master Musicians today, and they are led by Bachir Attar. Unfortunately, you cannot rely on Wikipedia for accurate information on the Master Musicians.