26th February 2016 sees the release of 4 new Trojan 2CD collections, each of which are built around one or more original classic album from the seventies or eighties.Full details of these superb sets can be found at the Trojan shop, where you can also...
Like all fans of Jamaican music, we’re keen that everyone to enjoy the wonderful that we love.With this in mind, we’d like anyone holding events promoting ska, rock steady and reggae to send us details so we can add them to the events...
To celebrate his 70th birthday on 22nd November, Max Romeo is this week’s Artist Of The Week.After emarbarking on a singing career during the rock steady era fronting the Emotions, the singer-songwriter was thrust into the international...
On 15th August 1992, Jamaican music lost one of its most influential and successful performers, Wilfred ‘Jackie’ Edwards.Arguably the island’s first recording superstar, the singer-songwriter first made his mark on the local recording scene...
After first making his first mark as a session pianist in the late sixties, Horace Swaby assumed the pseudonym of Augustus Pablo and began experimenting with the then unfashionable melodica. His groundbreaking recordings for Herman Chin-Loy in 1971 resulted in his...
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