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The best Jamaican reggae
from Faybiene Miranda, Jackie Mittoo and many others in Reggae
Strong Volume 4!
 Black Uhuru, 2 Online with JumpTV
Third World 2 Online with JumpTV
Bob Marley Tribute Online with JumpTV
Majek Fashek Online with JumpTV
Faybiene Miranda and The Word Online with
JumpTV
Moja Nya Online with JumpTV
Maxi Priest Online with JumpTV
Jackie Mittoo Tribute Online with JumpTV
The original lineup of the Grammy-winning group: Duckie Simpson, Don
Carlos and Garth Dennis, reunited in the late '80's and are interviewed
while touring the U.S. with their band in 1990.
Original concert clips
shot at Bay Street, Sag Harbor, NY. include: "Take Heed, "Heathen",
"Peace & Love", "Botha", and "Hey Joe".
Night Nurse reports the
Reggae News and Reviews from Step Lively.
The best
reggae music from Jamaica in Reggae Strong Live on JumpTV! |
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Reggae's Ambassadors
are documented while
recording their album "Serious Business" at Sound Trax Studio, NYC in
1989. This program includes an interview with keyboardist, Michael
"Ibo" Cooper and an in-studio duet between Bunny Rugs and Polygram
recording artist, Marva Hicks, recording "Head to the Sky", with
Geoffrey Chung mixing.
Music videos:
"Forbidden Love" (with Daddy
O),
"Same Old Song".
Night Nurse
reports the reggae news from
Ayaedeh, a
Jamaican restaurant in Greenwich Village.
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Bob Marley,
the "king of reggae", is
saluted in this 1990 birthday tribute.The program features interviews
with many who knew this internationally revered musical icon, including
Bunny Wailer, Marley's Artistic Director, Neville Garrick, biographers,
Timothy White and Roger Steffens, singers Marcia Griffiths, Judy
Mowatt, Alpha Blondy, Thomas Mapfumo, and son, Ziggy Marley.
The
program includes clips from the 1990 birthday celebration at the Bob
Marley Museum at 56 Hope Road in Kingston, JA and footage of Marley's
historic 1980 performance at the Independence ceremonies in
Zimbabwe.
Video clips:
"Concrete Jungle", "Could You
Be Loved", "Get Up. Stand
Up" and a live performance of "Redemption Song" by Nigeria's Majek
Fashek.
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Majek Fashek of
Nigeria, took up Fela's
revolutionary mantle in the 1980s and fashioned it to a reggae beat.
One of Africa's outstanding songwriters and performers, his single,
"Send Down the Rain" ended a drought in Nigeria and bestowed an almost
mystical status on this conscious singer/guitarist.
Majek is
interviewed at the 79th Street Boat Basin on the Hudson River at the
start of his first US tour in 1990, and performs with his band, The
Prisoners of Conscience, at Kilimanjaro, NYC's premiere African
venue.
Concert clips
include: "Leave Us Alone", "Inna de
Ghetto", "Majek
Fashek Inna NY", and "Hey Joe".
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Faybiene Miranda is
a singular artist who
combines, poetry, singing and activism to produce her own powerful
formula for positive expression. A gifted, articulate, writer and
thinker, Miranda is captured here on a brisk autumn afternoon and
evening in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, performing, "I am That I Am",
"Drums", and "Black Tracks" (accompanied by Prospect Park's drummers),
and sings, "Prophecy" as the sun sets.
The Word - the mother/daughter
duo behind, "Two White Girls 'Pon a Minibus" are interviewed in Jamaica
in 1990.
In a cultural spotlight, Jamaican sculptor/artist
Noel
Copeland is profiled.
Enjoy
the
best reggae hits in Reggae Strong online with JumpTV!
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Moja Nya, one
of New York's favorite US
based reggae bands, has its roots in Dominica, the lush gem of the
Caribbean. An explosive, 4-piece, cultural, roots band, Moja Nya tore
down the house at Bay Street in Sag Harbor in the summer of
1985.
This
early program features interviews at Rocket Rehearsal Studio, reggae's
veteran NYC equipment house, and original concert footage of
"Crackerjack", "Let the Sunshine In", and "Rise-Up".
Video spotlights:
Mabrak, "See The Children" and Denroy Morgan, "Make My Day".
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The "king of lovers rock", bonafide
hitmaker, Maxi Priest, is blessed with a
one in a million voice and a
surplus of charisma. Born in Jamaica, but raised in SW London, he has
achieved international popularity without sacrificing his reggae roots
and holds the distinction of being the only UK based reggae singer to
score a number one Billboard hit with his now classic single, "Close To
You."
The artist is interviewed here
in London
with the Saxon
International Crew and on location in New York City.
Included is
original footage of Maxi rehearsing, "Temptress" at S.I.R. Studio, in
Manhattan in 1990, and promo video clips: "Just a Little Bit Longer",
"Wild World", and "Close to You".
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Jamaican piano prodigy, Jackie
Mittoo, was
a groundbreaking figure at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One and remains an
integral component of reggae history. This pioneering composer/
keyboardist/arranger/producer, is remembered in this program, taped
three days after his passing on December 16, 1990.
Mittoo is
interviewed and videotaped in rehearsal & performance at The
Latin Quarter in 1987, with Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Lloyd
Brevett and Lloyd Knibb, aka the legendary Skatalites, who appear in
this episode also to pay tribute at SOBs, three years later. The
program is hosted by DJ Sting Int'l and features Screechy Dan and Tony
London, performing "Many are Called", at Club Epiphany. The KPP Posse:
Sting Int'l, Dahved Levy, John Robinson & DJ Red Alert are also
interviewed at New York radio station 98.7 KISS-FM.
Video spotlight:
Lady G, "Nuff Respect" & Carlton Jackson, "Disarmament".
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