Sly Dunbar, the drummer in the legendary reggae rhythm section, Sly & Robbie, has died. He was 73. Dunbar, along with bassist Robbie Shakespeare, played on hundreds of indelible reggae hits across a ...

McDonald, who is highly regarded by many as a premier percussionist in the world / reggae genre is now residing in New York City but his career began at the heart of the Jamaican reggae/ska scene with ...

Sly Dunbar, a pioneering reggae drummer, has died. He was 73. Most widely known as one-half of the production and performing partnership Sly & Robbie - along with Robbie Shakespeare - he crafted and ...

Legendary Jamaican drummer and producer Lowell ‘Sly’ Dunbar has joined the army of fallen reggae soldiers – pioneering heavyweights of reggae like Bunny Wailer, Lee “Scratch” Perry, U-Roy, Jimmy Cliff ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Dunbar performing in London in 2009 (photo: Gus Stewart / Redferns). Drummer Lowell Fillmore “Sly” Dunbar, who with the late ...

Lowell “Sly” Dunbar, the Jamaican drummer for the former reggae group Sly & Robbie, has died. He was 73. Dunbar’s wife, Thelma, confirmed the news to Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner on Monday. “About ...

In January 1979, France’s most scandalous artist flew to Jamaica and recorded with Bob Marley’s band. They thought he was the ...

Two Jamaican artists, Cocoa Tea and Determine, passed away recently, leaving behind a legacy of “conscious” reggae music that was especially popular in the 1990s even as the dancehall genre expanded ...

A favorite essay collection of mine gets its title from a chapter referring to luxury cruises as “a supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again.” But the eighth annual Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise ...