In 1972 Joseph (Jo-Jo)Hoo-Kim and his three brothers Ernest, Paul and Kenneth joined forces to establish the Channel One Recording Studio...

IT IS TIME TO PROPERLY RECOGNIZE JACKIE MITTOO Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the passing of Jackie Mittoo, a giant of a keyboard...

Every transformation of music in Jamaica, from the early Ska days to the short period of Rock-Steady to Reggae to the later dancehall and...

Much has been made about the growth and impact of Ska as an indigenous music from Jamaica between 1961 and 1966 and along the way this...

In 1970 Bob Andy And Marcia Griffiths put out their rendition of the Nina Simone classic for Harry J Records in Kingston and later...

The Wizard Ivan Chin Somewhere around 1952/53 a group of musicians approached electronics wizard Ivan Chin at his store in Kingston to...

In the mid-1950s almost every youth in Kingston it would appear, wanted to be a singer. As such, it was not uncommon to find bands of...

The trial of Adijah Palmer aka Vybz Kartel and his associates is now one for the history books as its second stanza was concluded in a...

The event took place on a Monday night...but it started long before. Coxsone was a much younger man than Trojan's Duke Reid, but his...

Bob Andy transited this life earlier today at home in Kingston Jamaica. He was 76 years old. Bob Andy (born Keith Anderson) emerged as a...

The Sound System's Humble Beginnings With the end of the War in 1945, thousands of rural Jamaicans trekked into Kingston in search of...

I grew up in the Mountain View Avenue area of Eastern Kingston, Jamaica where the lower half of Mountain View Avenue just below Jacques...

One of the most important elements in the growth and development of the Jamaican Music Industry is the Sound System and one of its...

Between 1959 and 1962 Duke Reid’s recording output was buffeted by the likes of Derrick Morgan and The Jiving Juniors with Derrick...

It was the competition led growth among the raft of Sound Systems that ultimately opened up the interest in Jamaica's Recording Industry...