For casual fans and newcomers to the music of Jamaica (a growing number, given the popularity of the BBC / France 2 TV mystery series Death in Paradise and its Jamaican-infused soundtrack), the ...

New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble is a group of New York City’s finest musicians linking together Jamaican ska/reggae and American jazz/blues/R&B music into a potent, highly danceable musical experience. The ...

The legendary New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble will play their only concert in Poland this year on Sunday in Warsaw - supported by the city's ska-jazz pride, The Bartenders, who will celebrate their 20th ...

It’s another great week for ska, and here’s a roundup of some new songs (and one album) out this week that we highly recommend checking out. New Haven ska-punk vets Sgt. Scag have been at it since the ...

Something has changed in the ska world. Ska shows, with attendance in the thousands, local bar ska nights and even television ads with ska jingles are becoming ever less frequent. Frat kids are tuning ...

Whatever you call this renaissance that ska's been having--fourth wave, New Tone, some secret third thing--there's no doubt that 2023 has been one of its biggest years yet. The genre's current leading ...

SULTAN Ali is doing his part to keep ska music alive by injecting his own style into the sound some refer to as Jamaican jazz. He told the Jamaica Observer that his music, while inspired by ...

Read the introduction to Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska & Swing by Kenneth Partridge. By Kenneth Partridge The following is an excerpt from Hell of a Hat: The Rise of ’90s Ska and Swing, written ...

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New York Ska Jazz Ensemble were formed in the mid '90s by a group of musicians who were simultaneously in love with both the jazz that permeated the streets of their home city and the sounds of ska ...