JamaicaMusic OFFBEAT

OFFBEAT means unconventional; not conforming to norm. JamaicaMusic Offbeat presents music unconventional to popular Jamaican music which is largely traditional reggae and its dancehall derivatives. It places in the spotlight Jamaican musicians, home and abroad, who are creators/players/performers of improvised and other non-traditional music, the venues and shows that indulge in improvised music. It also features similar musicians and jazz related entities beyond the Jamaican shores.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Cassandra Wilson Signs to eOne Music, New album, ‘Another Country,’ to be released June 5

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JazzTimes: eOne Music has announced a new, worldwide deal with singer/songwriter/arranger Cassandra Wilson . Wilson’s new studio album, Ano...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Trinidadian jazz guitarist Clifford Charles takes on the world

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Trinidadian jazz guitarist Clifford Charles is about to take on the world with his home grown brand of silky smooth jazz music. And, his fan...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Chick Corea, “The chameleon of jazz”, accepts another two Grammy Awards

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Chick Corea, “The Chameleon of Jazz” because of the wide variety of format he plays, accepts two golden statuettes at the 54th Annual Grammy...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

WBGO Jazz88 preserving, promoting and presenting jazz in the New York tri-state area

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Radio WBGO FM is an independent, community-based, public radio station proported to be one of the bastions of the art of jazz in the New Yo...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Dobet Gnahore: From Africa with energy

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Michael Reckord, Gleaner Writer The statement that Ivory Coast's Grammy Award winner Dobet Gnahore is the most energetic singer ever ...

Dobet Gnahore sparkling performance at the Phillip Sherlock Centre (UWI) in Jamaica

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Dobet Gnahore is compared to Africa's great legends... gave amazing performance in Jamaica

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Dobet Gnahoré, Africa's new voice, a dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast, has been compared to genre legends and cultural amb...
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Claude Wilson, born in St Thomas, Jamaica one 13th September, resident in Kingston, Jamaica, ekes out a living in agricultural sales, author of three handbooks of agriculture and a feature writer for Buzzz Caribbean Lifestyle Magazine. I indulge copiously in jazz, a former PR & publicist for a Jamaican jazz pianist and recording artist and a gospel singer, a profile editor on ALL ABOUT JAZZ website, and a practising Judeo-centric Christian.
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