“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.

Jamaica and the global music community are mourning the sudden passing of , co-founder and lead guitarist of the legendary reggae group . Coore died on Sunday evening, January 18, 2026, at the age of ...

In this lesson, we're going to look at how the reggae style has influenced mainstream pop artists. The Clash and The Police fused punk and reggae together with much success back in the late 1970s and ...

If ever there was a “once in a blue moon” concert, it was Saturday night’s show at Nectar by Jamaican guitar legend Ernest Ranglin. The club billed the night as Ranglin’s first Seattle appearance, but ...

JaRIA is celebrating 17 years of advocacy and service to Jamaica’s creative community under the theme ‘Rhythms of Resilience’ ...

A VETERAN American musician is teaching the rudiments of reggae rhythm guitar through online company Guitar Control. Jimmy Dillon, an accomplished guitarist, says his lessons focus on a basic pattern ...

A revolutionary form of music took the world by storm in the Seventies and dragged a little-known island languishing in the Caribbean along with it. That music was reggae and the island was, of course ...

Reggae musician Gracie “Bassie” Kruse didn’t want to be a bass player. The Durango native, who has played bass in reggae bands from Southern California to the Bay Area, Durango to Denver and around ...

Reggae resistance remains an ongoing enigma in American popular music. Even as Jamaica’s No. 1 cultural export — with its sultry rhythms and spiritual sense of humanity and salvation — achieved a ...