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 [...]
The Jolly Boys rehearsing Rehab and Blue Monday

Jolly Boys rehearsing “Blue Monday” by New Order and “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse in Rehearsals on Sat, July 3, 2010. Footage taken by Sarfraz Manzoor, journalist from the UK.
Jolly Boys @ Redbones Cafe//July 3, 2010

On Saturday July 3, Geejam Productions will heat up the summer at Redbones Café in Kingston with Geejam Nights, a one-night-only concert event and party showcasing the Jolly Boys featuring Albert Minott and their new, modern take on mento, Jamaica’s first-time dance music. First set begins at 8:00pm with a performance of the kind classic [...]
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 [...]
Dan Parry (Tom Elmhirst’s ASSISTANT)
I met Dan AT Geejam Studios working as an assistant for Tom Elmhirst. Cool dude, he knows his stuff. NIce vibes, check out his myspace page http://www.myspace.com/danielparry DANIEL PARRY About me: Have been working in studios since I was 18, firstly with Soul II Soul who owned a commercial studio in Camden Town and for [...]
Tom Elmhirst

Tom Elmhirst (born 8 June 1971) is a British specialist music producer and mix engineer. He began his career at SARM studios in the early 90s at a time when digital audio was already becoming mainstream. Elmhirst’s experiences at SARM and with Trevor Horn have clearly influenced his current working methods. It shows in his [...]
