Jamaica Gleaner News – Reggae maths! – Tuesday | May 27 2008
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- Jamaica Gleaner News – Reggae maths! – Tuesday | May 27 2008
- Freedom Rock
- Smokin’ Joe – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Leon Chase at Hank’s on Atlantic Avenue
- Richie Stephens Al Miller pray for the children
Jamaica Gleaner News – Reggae maths! – Tuesday | May 27 2008
Jamaica Gleaner – May 27, 2008
I have even purchased musical CDs with the timetables but the music is ‘foreign’ to her. She knows most of the popular Jamaican hit songs word for word without any effort… I have even purchased musical CDs with the timetables but the music is ‘foreign’ to her. She knows most of the popular Jamaican hit songs word for word without any effort. I do not even know some of the songs myself! If our Jamaican artistes are so concerned about the youth can any artiste take on the initiative to put the timetables and conversion factors to music. This would be a hit for parents.
Freedom Rock
Washington Post – May 27, 2008
Freedom du Lac is online every Tuesday at 2 p. ET to talk about the latest on the music scene: alternative country alt-country pop hyphy harp-rock reggae reggaeton R and B and whatever it is that Constantine Maroulis does… Freedom du Lac is online every Tuesday at 2 p. ET to talk about the latest on the music scene: alternative country alt-country pop hyphy harp-rock reggae reggaeton R and B and whatever it is that Constantine Maroulis does.
Smokin’ Joe – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – May 27, 2008
“Rock’n'roll has always been made up of bothtrained and untrained musicians and in the end it doesn’tmatter” he says. “The point is whether you have an original ideathe spark of something special. Having first stepped out as a cross between a Mod and a NewWaver in a skinny tie suit and pork-pie hat on his 1979 debutLook Sharp! which featured his first hit Is She ReallyGoing out with Him? Jackson has dabbled since in reggaeswing classical jazz and Latin genres as well as scoringfilms. He’s been nominated for many Grammys and finally won one for2000’s Symphony No. 1 which featured jazz and rock playersperforming within classical song structures. And while hiseasygoing pop sound has little in common with heavy metal hirsutethrash band Anthrax covered his song Got the Time. In perhaps the strangest collaboration of all he performed onan album by Star Trek’s William Shatner (Captain Kirk) whichincluded a cover of Pulp’s Common People… “It offends me this idea that I have a checklist of musicalgenres and I go down it checking them off” he says. “That makes mesound very phoney. I’m just interested in lots of different kindsof music and when I create something I just go with my gut and itusually comes out as sounding eclectic. Jackson was born in Staffordshire England but has spent mostof the past 20 years living in New York City whose gritty urbanlandscapes inform much of his work. He briefly returned home butafter finding it difficult to re-adjust relocated to Berlin wherehe recorded his new album Rain. ther than the persistent precipitation that inspired thealbum’s title he says Berlin had little influence on thealbum. “Everyone wants to think there’s some kind of magic somethingin the air that influences music but there’s not” he continues.
Leon Chase at Hank’s on Atlantic Avenue
Village Voice – May 27, 2008
“This is as authentic as anything down South” he enthuses his mouth racing NASCAR-fast as guitarist Boo Reiners squeezes lightning from his Tele. “I tell my buddies back home but they don’t believe me. Also hard to believe is the notion that Brooklyn’s Caribbean population actively helps keep the music alive. The playlist at the Paradise Club in Bushwick includes calypso reggae and an obligatory country set because the joint is frequented by St. Lucians who “think they invented country music” explains Joseph Greenidge a former calypso singer and transplant from Grenada who goes by the name of Joe Country and is Brooklyn’s answer to Charley Pride. He designs a line of western garb Storm Country Wear and has cut several songs with session players including “Caribbean Country Boy” and “I Don’t Want to Work for the Big Wheels. ” Though the Apollo crowd predictably booed him off the stage Greenidge persists: “It’s music that jabs you right in the heart” he says.
Richie Stephens Al Miller pray for the children
Jamaica Gleaner – May 27, 2008
He said reports of widespread child abuse and the tragic deaths of young Jamaicans inspired him to write A Prayer For the Children. “As a father I am very concerned about how our children are dying so I decided to ask for divine support” Stephens told The Gleaner. Spiritual supportThat ’support’ came in the form of Miller a charismatic preacher who came to public prominence in the late 1990s as spiritual adviser to the Reggae Boyz Jamaica’s football team. “Every time I was in the studio I came up with a voice that was not mine and Reverend Miller came to mind. Even though I have never been to his church I have always liked his energy” Stephens said. A Prayer For the Children which has Miller preaching and Stephens singing was released two weeks ago by Stephens’ Pot f Gold company. “The response has been great.
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