For once, the AI algorithms suggesting clips in the side column on YouTube turned up something of value—in fact, something almost invaluable. It’s certainly not every day that you find a calypso performance from 1948 Continue Reading →
Trinidadian expat Martin Albino’s career in music spans an impressive seven decades—and it’s by no means over yet. At 76 he keeps himself regularly busy with the steel pan: playing it, recording it and teaching Continue Reading →
This modern music’s got me confused To tell you, friends, I’m quite unenthused … Be-ah-ba-do-la, beep-bleep Blee-oo-blee-oo-blee-oo-blee Jam-jilly-a-bah Oo-pah-pa-diddle-oom-ah-ah George Browne, 1953 In the late 1940s bebop was enrapturing the jazz world. It was Continue Reading →
