Jolly Boys in NY: New York Times Review
Reprints February 25, 2011 With Island Spice, and Years of Seasoning, Old is New Again By JON PARELES The Jolly Boys returned to New York City for their first public show here in decades like a Model T with a new CD player in the dashboard. At Hiro Ballroom on Thursday night, they had material [...]
Jolly Boys: (Billboard Magazine Article)
Jolly Boys: Why GeeJam Recordings Launched with a Septuagenarian Jamaican Mento Band March 11, 2011 By Patricia Meschino, New York 70-Somethings: Jamaican Mento Group the Jolly Boys, who now cover Amy Winehouse and Iggy Pop,once played For Errol Flynn Eleven years after he sold his UK-based hip-hop label Gee Street Records to Richard Branson’s [...]
THE JOLLY BOYS JOIN SADE AS SPECIAL GUESTS
THE JOLLY BOYS JOIN SADE AS SPECIAL GUESTS Following a personal invitation from Sade, Jamaica’s legendary and iconic The Jolly Boys have announced that they will join Sade on their European tour this spring. The Jolly Boys, once the toast of Jamaica with their traditional ‘mento’ music, have after five decades been enjoying a [...]
Emmanuel Road by The Jolly Boys (Classic Mento)
Emmanuel Road by The Jolly Boys, Produced by Dale Virgo & Jon Baker Recorded in the Geejam Studios Emmanuel Road – The Jolly Boys by geejamstudios BUY ON ITUNES!!!!!!!
Jolly Boys Jamaican Style (popculturevideomagazine.blogspot.com)
http://popculturevideomagazine.blogspot.com/2011/02/jolly-boys-jamaican-style.html Errol Flynn gave this amazing band their name over 50 years ago.But it was John Baker who brought the Jolly Boys and their Mento style music to the Hiro Ballroom in New York, where they impressed even the most blase hipster. The Jolly Boys’ recent album, “Great Expectations” charted in eight European countries within [...]
The Jolly Boys, Birmingham (16/12/10) – World Music
The Jolly Boys – HMV Institute, Birmingham – 16/12/10 On a bitterly cold night in Birmingham, when I even had to remove ice from the inside of my windscreen before I could get out, four Senior Citizens from Jamaica brought the warmth of the Caribbean to the HMV Institute. The Jolly Boys have been around in [...]
Sitting and Watching by Divine Brown (Tribute to Dennis Brown)
Sitting and Watching by Divine Brown (Tribute to Dennis Brown) by dalevirgo This is a tune I did last week with Canadian Superstar – Divine Brown… This is a Tribute to Dennis Brown,, Happe Birthday Dennis Brown… bless… http://www.divinebrown.ca/ http://www.facebook.com/divinebrown http://twitter.com/divinamarrom
Seek the father (Letter to Kartel) – D.A.Jay
Seek the father (Letter to Kartel) – D.A.Jay by dalevirgo This Song was inspired by Kartel, bleaching, free mason and acts of madness teaching the youths. Kartel a talented artiste but Jah know rasta is like him head gawn more time.
THE JOLLY BOYS:Half a Century of Mento Madness
Taken from www.jollyboysmusic.com Written and researched by Dr. Daniel Neely, Pls. check out www.jollyboysmusic.com and become a fan on facebook @ facebook.com/jollyboys In winter of 1946, Errol Flynn purchased Navy Island for the princely sum of US$80,000. For the next decade that small swath of land, not even 100 yards from the beaches of Port [...]
Video director defends gangster plot (Drake “Find your love”)
Krista Henry, Gleaner Staff Reporter Anthony Mandler, the director of American rapper Drake’s Find Your Love video, which was shot in Jamaica in April and features singjay Mavado as the ‘villain’ of the plot, has come out in response to Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett’s comments last week, warning local acts to be careful in [...]
Pioneering studio engineer Sid Bucknor dies in England
The Jamaican music industry has lost another pioneer with the passing of veteran studio engineer Sid Bucknor, who died of cancer at the St Charles Hospital, Ladbroke Grove in London on Sunday. Bucknor, who migrated to the UK in 1970, was one of the early innovators responsible for the evolution of Jamaican music from ska [...]
Mad Cobra shot 5 time
Dudes, i implore u all to put down the guns and stop killing people carelessly. I seriously feel we need to teach anger management in schools. Suh, Oneil got shot, now is Cobra. Is what a gwaan… Peeps, keep praying for mad cobra and oneil as they recover. We give thanks for life and we [...]
Oneil from Voicemail Shot
Oneil, singer in the group voicemail shot 5 times, in his side and head. Darn, why these dudes don’t chill with them guns. Too much killing in we nation, we dont haffi try tek a man life. Mi just a pray seh him come true alright, i heard that he in the hospital in stable [...]
Earthquake in Jamaica
The Seismic Unit at the University of the West Indies has confirmed that an earthquake was felt in sections of Jamaica about 3:56 Wednesday afternoon. Persons in St. Mary, Portland, St. Thomas and Kingston and St. Andrew reported feeling the tremor. The magnitude of the earthquake or its location is not clear as the Earthquake [...]
The new Avid: buys Euphonix
ProToolerBlog 4/12/10 1:16 PM It has been announced that Avid has bought Euphonix. As you probably know, Euphonix is a manufacturer of control surfaces on both the high- and the low-end of the spectrum. Not only that, they are – ahem! were! – part of Apple’s trinity together with Apogee and Apple themselves. I don’t [...]
I am T-Pain Autotune App for Iphone
With this app u can be portable with ur autotune…. sick…. Just install it on your iphone and hook up your iphone to a stereo system. Chek it out here http://iamtpain.smule.com/ Cheers Dizz
Damian Marley & Nas’ Distant Relatives Album Cover Revealed
After much delay, the highly anticipated Nas and Damian “Junior Gong” Marley’s ‘Distant Relatives’ album is finally set and confirmed to be released on Tuesday, May 18th. The album cover was revealed recently, and we’ve featured it below. According to the artistes, the album album traces Hip-Hop’s roots in Africa, and how it was transported [...]
San, Kirk awesome at Fun in the Son
Gospel artiste Kirk Franklin (right) makes faces with Christopher Levy, president and chief executive officer of Jamaica Broilers Group, at the Fun in the Son festival and fun day at Jamaica College last Saturday. The event, a mixture of entertainment and Christian ministry, was sponsored by Broilers’ flagship brand, Best Dressed Chicken. – Winston Sill/Freelance [...]
Lil Wayne Gets Into A Scuffle With Prison Inmate
It’s only been a few weeks, and rapper he’s already making waves in jail. MediaTakeOut.com just received EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION that rapper Lil Wayne and another inmate got into, what our insider calls a “scuffle.” According to our ROCK SOLID source, rapper Lil Wayne and another inmate got into a disagreement a few days ago. The [...]
Earthquake in Cayman Islands
There are reports surfacing that there was an earthquake in the Cayman Islands a short while ago. The quake was reportedly felt in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cuba and Miami. A Jamaican living in Grand Cayman said it lasted a few seconds but nothing appeared to have been damaged. He said residents are quite shaken. Reports [...]
Haiti Earthquake Report by Molly
Molly reports on the recent earthquake in Haiti. Maps of earthquake: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquake… About Haiti: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/h… Geo search for tweets: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+n… Videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search…,10,19,22 Twitpic Images: http://picfog.com/search/haiti How you can help: UNICEF http://www.unicefusa.org/news/release… Red Cross http://american.redcross.org/site/Don… For more info, including story links and assets, visit: http://rocketboom.com/haiti-earthquake For up to the minute updates, follow: http://twitter.com/rocketboom http://twitter.com/mememolly Join [...]