Once a cornerstone of Jamaican music, the instrumental has long given way to hardcore dancehall rhythms with multiple artistes. Drummer Sly Dunbar believes there is a place in contemporary reggae for ...
If a reggae instrumental compilation seems rather out of place in the context of a jazz site, rest assured that many of the players on these eighteen selections were or are major Jamaican jazz players ...
Maxi Priest, one of the most celebrated reggae fusion artists of all time, is making a massive move to re-ignite world music. The legendary reggae vocalist, whose career spans four decades with three ...
Phenomenal French band, Soul Sugar, comes through with what could surely be the best reggae album of 2017—Chase The Light (Excursions in Soul, Reggae, Funk, and Dub). True to its name, this album is ...
Jamaican producer and musician Harry Zephaniah Johnson (aka Harry J), who produced what is considered the first reggae single "No More Heartaches" by the Beltones and whose famed Harry J Studios… By ...
Starting Black History Month off in a unique way, Daniel Caesar released a cover of the reggae classic, “Waiting in Vain” by Bob Marley and the Wailers, on Feb. 2. The cover will feature as part of ...
In our series of letters from African journalists, Mark Wilberforce looks at how Ghana's rich musical scene has strong Jamaican links. Afrobeats may be the dominant sound right now in Ghana, as in ...