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Following an electrifying collaboration in June 2007, the RNCM Big Band is once again joined by one of the UK’s most in-demand keyboard players and Latin music producers, Alex Wilson. One of the leading names on the UK jazz and Latin music scenes, Wilson has performed with everyone from Courtney Pine to Jazz Jamaica, Adalberto Santiago to Toumani Diabaté. Of his six solo albums, his latest, Salsa con Soul, has…

Tickets to The Wailing Souls live at Band On The Wall Manchester. The concert will be followed by a reggae club night featuring the King Cosmic Sound System (tickets available separately). The Wailing Souls are part of the small surviving group of reggae and roots originators still musically active today. The legendary group dates back to the late 1960s. The Wailing Souls members got their start learning from reggae icon…

AMY WINEHOUSE divested herself of all her cats before jetting to Jamaica this week. read more

An Evening with Levi Roots in his Rasta’raunt’.   The essence of laid-back Jamaican cool, Levi Roots was thrown into the nations consciousness on the programme, Dragon’s Den, winning the backing of entrepreneur Peter Jones. With Peter’s support, Reggae Reggae Sauce has sold 2 million bottles.    A meeting with Nelson Mandela inspired Levi to make a new album and start his own label.  Sound Box Media (SBM) was born….

Congratulations China for winning the medal tally!! The just reward for a lot of hard work and notice to the rest of the world that you are now a sporting power to be reckoned with. I think that many within the USA Olympic comittee will be a little shellshocked at how some of the sports the USA is used to dominating (like track) were really thrown wide open to emerging…

The Kingston, Jamaica born, Lincoln "Sugar" Barrington Minott is one of the great figures of Reggae music, and is fully justified to carry the status as the "Godfather of Dancehall". In the early 1970's Sugar Minott went to Studio One Recording Studios. By laying vocal tracks over the original tapes from the 60's, rather than using a live band, he caused a revolution in the sound that brought a new…

Bob Marley & the Wailers was a reggae band created in 1973 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers. Together with Bob Marley, the Wailers have sold in excess of 250 million albums worldwide. In England alone, they’ve notched up over twenty chart hits, including seven Top 10 entries. Outside of their groundbreaking work with Marley, the Wailers have also played or…