On Jamaica’s influence of British Vernacular
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On the Road with Bob Marley
“How can a big music come from a little island?” Not even Bob Marley would have had the answer in 1975, as he was about to give the world some of Jamaica’s finest hours. Never before had a talent, mistakenly called Third World in origin, had so much First World impact. Neville Garrick, graphic artist […]
100 Years Old and the Alpha Boys Band Plays On…
Victorians would have called it a brave sight, thirty-odd boys of the Alpha band, seated under a spreading almond tree, possibly as old as the band itself-tooting clarinets, trumpets, and trombones and saxophones in the gentle morning breeze. Some are barely in their teens, mostly boys from what is politely called difficult social circumstances—petty crime, […]