Lloyd Brevett the upright bass player and founding member of the seminal Jamaican ska group The Skatalites passed away this morning at Andrews Memorial Hospital in St. Andrew, Jamaica where he was b… ...
The original mid-1960s incarnation of the Skatalites only lasted 15 months, yet their irresistible blend of jazz, boogie-woogie, blues, mento and African rhythms helped create a new and enduring genre ...
It’s not a terrible stretch to call tonight’s Skatalites show in Shirley a “homecoming.” While Jamaica is truly the birthplace of the Skatalites, these progenitors of ska and catalysts for rock steady ...
You might love the Skatalites without knowing who they are—the founders of ska, a kind of Jamaican jazz. They backed Bob Marley and Desmond Decker before they became the Skatalites. Born from mainly ...
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