In the history of Jamaican music, few performers have proved more successful than Barry Biggs, yet despite recording a succession of international hits in the 1970s and 1980s, his remarkable achievements have been largely overlooked by music...
Having made their mark as top session players during the early seventies, drummer Lowell ‘Sly’ Dunbar and bassist Robert Shakespeare united as members of the Revolutionaries and Aggrovators, with the pair instantly developing an almost...
Ernest Ranglin was pivotal in the development of Jamaican music, with his immense talent as both guitarist and musical arranger instrumental in shaping the sound of ska, then introducing it to a global audience.Since then, he has remained a powerful figure on the...
Formed in 1963 by an ensemble comprising Jamaica’s finest musician, the Skatalites set the standard for musicianship throughout the ska era and while its members went their seperate ways by the mid-sixties, they continued to play a major role in shaping...
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