Growing up in Southern England, Bob Bell fell in love with Jamaican music as soon as he bought his first recording, in 1963. As far as he was concerned, the explosion of musical creativity in that ...

Coxsone Dodd, the record producer and entrepreneur who helped invent the Jamaican music industry, died Tuesday at his studio in Kingston. He was 72. The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter ...

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There’s old school, and then there’s ancient school: The Jolly Boys were “formed,” if that’s the word, as an ad hoc group of musicians who swam out to Errol Flynn’s Navy Island just off the coast of ...

The grand maestro of Jamaican music: Carlos Malcolm at Steakhouse Studios in Los Angeles. (Credit: Bernadette Madden) Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now ...

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But it was Buju Banton, whose high-energy performance had attendees raising their fists and cellphones in the air as he belted out an array of songs including “Untold Stories” and “Hills and Valleys,” ...