Playlist (Mar/Apr 2021) | Music reviews
This month’s listening picks from the Caribbean — featuring new music by Kalpee; Payge Turner Music; Natiruts, Ziggy Marley & Yalitza Aparicio; and Will the Wolf & X.O. Drew
The Beat goes on: Caribbean Beat turns 25
Caribbean Beat marks its 25th anniversary In early 1992, passengers boarding BWIA planes across the Caribbean, South and North America, and...
Passing on the culture
As I was listening the other day to a fine CD by Kenyatta “Culture” Hill, son of the late and sadly missed Joseph Hill, it struck me...
Music buzz (September/October 2007)
The January Transfer Window jointpop (Anarchy on the Ave. Records) When considering how studiously neglected jointpop, Trinidad’s best...
The next generation of Marleys
It seems like just the other day that I first heard reports out of Jamaica about a sensational new reggae album called Catch a Fire, by a...
Ziggy Marley: R is for reggae
There’s a small kindergarten in a rural parish of Jamaica called Chepstowe Elementary School. It looks like any other kindergarten, with...
Upbeat (Winter 1993)
Joy and Blues Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers (Virgin Records) Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, sons and daughters of reggae legends,...
