Culture, Music, People, Jamaica
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 62 (July/August 2003)
Riddem & Rhyme: Byron Lee
It was a bitterly cold, blustery night in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which happens to be my home town, and also happens to be one of the coldest...
By David Katz ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Clement “Sir Coxsone” Dodd: “Just working on the feel”
It started out from a little restaurant at Lawes Street and Ladd Lane, “Nanny’s Corner”, in Kingston in the ’50s: we used to play...
By Garry Steckles ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Tommy Cowan: backstage king
The first time I met Tommy Cowan, I ended up in one of the Caribbean’s most notorious prisons. The year was 1976. I was in the middle of...
Culture, Arts, Food and Cuisine, Jamaica
By Anu Lakhan ● Issue 63 (September/October 2003)
Cook it up
I left Trinidad early one January morning, thinking that Jamaica was the two things I most needed: it was warm, and it was 900 miles away...