Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Contents Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third ...

“You have to put in the time,” says Ernest Ranglin about how he developed into such an eloquent guitarist – and the 82-year-old legend knows a thing or two about what it takes to become a master.

Brad Klein is standing in the glass doorway at World Street Kitchen in south Minneapolis, on his cellphone, smoothing things over. The 52-year-old Minneapolis native is used to doing that — he's a ...

Stranger Cole, born Wilburn Theodore Cole in Kingston in 1945, represents one of the last living links to the birth of ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS SF/AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante ...

Lester Sterling, the celebrated saxophonist trained at Kingston’s famous Alpha Boys School and member of the legendary Skatalites, didn’t realize Jamaican music pioneer Prince Buster was so ...

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are not part of any fad, predating the ska revival by a full decade. Ska is a life commitment for these guys. But no band better represented that movement, influencing a ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell ...