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AFTER A 3-YEAR BREAK, SINGER COURTNEY JOHN IS BACK WITH A NEW SINGLE “STRANGERS!”
Courtney John— It has been three years since Courtney John announced his Rootstronic sound, which was the focus of his album, Future. After a break, he returns with the song Strangers. Produced by Frenchman Guillaume “Gee” Metenier, Strangers is the precursor to John’s fifth album, which is scheduled for release in early 2017. “I am planning on rolling out a full PR campaign for this album. Strangers is the first single from the next album, which will be … Read entire article »
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INACCURACIES ACCEPTED IN THE EARLY JAMAICAN MUSIC INDUSTRY!
By Roy Black— Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd—– One of the most commonly accepted inaccuracies in early Jamaican popular music is the story that legendary record producer Clement ‘Coxson’ Dodd’s voice appeared in only one recording. So often we have heard on-air radio presenters, who we would expect to know better, referring to Delroy Wilson’s early 1960’s ska recording of King Pharaoh, as the only one in which Dodd’s voice is heard. In the recording, the Studio 1 honcho is heard … Read entire article »
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NEW YORK-BORN REGGAE SINGER K-VIBES, PAYS TRIBUTE TO JACKIE MITTOO IN KINGSTON, MARCH 29!
Jackie Mittoo— NOT many current dancehall/reggae producers know much about Jackie Mittoo, the music’s original beat master. On March 29, Karen Morrison-Gayle of Brickrose Entertainment continues her drive to reintroduce the master keyboardist/arranger to contemporary fans. In February, she staged a tribute to Mittoo at his alma mater Kingston College. Her latest effort is Tribute To Jackie Mittoo: Whodunit, a show scheduled for Jacob’s Place at King’s Plaza. For Morrison-Gayle, the event is more than just a salute to Mittoo who died from cancer in Toronto, Canada, in 1990. “This show to me means that more people will be aware of session musicians who made outstanding contributions to the popular music of Jamaica. And even though many of them are no longer with us, people will see the need to celebrate them and their legacy … Read entire article »
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JACKIE MITTOO TO BE HONORED BY KINGSTON COLLEGE!
Jackie Mittoo Bottom: K-Vibes Widely regarded as one of reggae’s most influential musicians, Donat ‘Jackie’ Mittoo is unknown to many in contemporary dancehall. On Saturday, the original ‘beat master’ will be honored in a ceremony at his alma mater, Kingston College (KC). Mittoo, who died in Canada in 1990, never graduated from KC. He left while in fourth form at age 15 to become a founding member of The Skatalites band. The ceremony takes place at the KC Chapel where Mittoo honed his playing on the organ. His family will be presented with a symbolic school tie and a citation. Singer Karen ‘K Vibes Brick Rose’ Morrison came up with the idea to honor Mittoo. She discovered his music while signed to Studio One, the legendary record company where the keyboardist/arranger was musical director.“Based on my … Read entire article »
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LEROY “MR. BASSIE” SIBBLES PERFORMS FOR THE STARTIME AUDIENCE, JANUARY 9!
Leroy Sibbles— THE rocksteady era of the late 1960’s produced several great songwriters and musicians. One of them was Leroy Sibbles of harmony trio The Heptones. Sibbles, an headliner for this Saturday’s Startime show, has an enviable record as artiste, bass player and arranger. While numerous Jamaican artists have covered or sampled his work, ‘foreign’ acts have done so with even greater success.In 1982, Musical Youth, a British teen group with Jamaican heritage, hit it big in the United Kingdom and United States with the novelty song, Pass The Dutchie. It was done to the beat of Full Up, a popular instrumental co-written by Sibbles and keyboardist Jackie Mittoo. Pass The Dutchie went top 10 in the UK and US. Seven years later, hot British group UB40 covered the Heptones’ hit song Baby for their Labour … Read entire article »
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NEW VOYAGE FOR JACKIE MITTOO IN AFRICA!
Jackie Mittoo—- AT his musical peak, Jackie Mittoo recorded outstanding Afrocentric songs like Drum Song. Africa had a lasting impact on the keyboardist/arranger. Mittoo travelled to the west Africa country of Ghana in 1985 with British reggae group Musical Youth, who were riding high at the time with the hit song, Pass the Dutchie. While there, he led recording sessions at Black Note studio in the capital Accra which yielded the album, Jackie Mittoo in Africa. The album was released in 1997, seven years after Mittoo’s death from cancer at age 42. Tony Owens, Musical Youth’s former manager who co-produced the 14-track set, is preparing to release it digitally. “I remember we did shows in Kumasi, Accra and Togo but with some of the money we got, we went into this eight-track studio and did … Read entire article »
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WILLIE “ARMAGIDEON TIME” WILLIAMS MAKING HIS CONTRIBUTIONS IN SPREADING REGGAE IN CANADA!
By Howard Campbell— Willi Williams—– WILLI Williams had never been outside of Jamaica until 1974 when wanderlust drew him to Toronto, Canada. The singer, best known for the 1977 hit song Armagideon Time, liked it so much he stayed. Though it has been 40 years since his first time there, Williams vividly recalls his initial impression of Canada. “Obviously, it was different from Jamaica in many ways: a sleepy country, had a small Jamaican community,” he said. “Back then, when yuh si a Jamaican yuh glad ’cause there was a lotta discrimination.” The St Ann-born Williams had been recording since 1968, cutting his first song at Studio One. He also did a number of self-produced songs at Randy’s, Harry J and Dynamic Sounds. In mid-1970s Canada, he found a growing reggae colony headed by trumpeter Jo … Read entire article »
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THE HISTORY OF REGGAE IN TORONTO!
Posted by Guest Contributor— Louise Bennett— The history of reggae in Toronto, one of the strongest cities in the world for this genre and its offshoots, can’t merely be a rundown of notable bands — it’s bound up in an infrastructure of musicians, venues, promoters and record stores. It’s also about the tension of artists trying to succeed in both Canada and in the reggae universe with Jamaica as its axis. Most of all, unsurprisingly, it’s tied to Jamaican people in Canada. Jamaicans came to Toronto in large numbers in the 50s and 60s, and since then have somewhat determined the tenor of Toronto’s black community while spreading their music to a multicultural fan base in Toronto, all the while maintaining possession of it. Caribbean immigrants’ arrival in Toronto goes back well over 100 years … Read entire article »
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BOOK EXAMINES REGGAE’S LACK OF GROWTH IN CANADA – THE LAND OF THE MAPLE LEAF!
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL——- THOUGH some of Jamaica’s leading artists have lived in Canada, the land of the Maple Leaf has never had a booming reggae scene. Singer-turned-author Michael ‘Visionary’ Thompson examines some of the reasons for this shortfall in his book, The Hidden Agenda of Reggae Music. The St Catherine-born Thompson launched The Hidden Agenda in February at the Institute of Jamaica, downtown Kingston. He told the Jamaica Observer recently that it is a compressed autobiography as … Read entire article »
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