The 28th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA continued Monday with Reggae Day, which presented a strong focus on traditional reggae music and Rastafarian culture. Posters of Bob Marley, T-shirts ...

ASPEN – When I ask Monty Alexander how he’s doing, the answer that comes back over the phone is a lyrical, drawn-out “Excellent, mon” that is distinctive to a certain Caribbean island that has made a ...

CORRECTION: The lead guitarist and co-founder of The Lions is named Dan Ubick. A sunny day on Sunday will mean a good day and performance, according to Q-Tip, who will be performing on Jam Day ...

At first look, jazz seems to have little use for reggae. After all, isn't the essence of jazz its flights of improvisatory fancy, while reggae's trademark is that resolute, lockdown rhythm? But a ...

This is a Trojan horse book, ostensibly about various facets of reggae music under-represented in reggae journalism, but on a certain level really a book about Jamaican jazz. As such, the information ...

Those who know jazz pianists know that Monty Alexander is one of the best around. In his teens in his native Jamaica, Alexander soaked up the sounds of Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole. He went on to ...

If you’ve been hearing live music on the formerly quiet corner of NW First Ave. and West Las Olas Blvd., your ears are not deceiving you. On January 10, Crafti Bar opened for business, bringing reggae ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Kansas City’s annual Reggae Music and Jerk Festival is returning for a three day weekend full of fun, music, culture and good food. Hosted by a Kansas City, Missouri ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...

Sugar Minott, a popular Jamaican singer whose joyful, lilting voice bridged four decades of transformation in reggae music, died Saturday in Kingston, the nation’s capital. He was 54. The cause has ...