Every Sunday night at Timbuktu in Riverwest, Eric Blowtorch spins killer slabs of Jamaican music, from the days of pre-ska r&b right up to current sounds, with his Mighty Django Hi-Fi set. Here's the ...

He began his career during the 1950s folk revival and continued to record — and helped orchestrate “We Are the World” — while pursing his many other artistic and political interests. By Jon Pareles ...

Irving Burgie, a songwriter whose adaptation of the traditional Jamaican folk song "Day-O" became one of the definitive calypso songs of the 20th Century, died on Friday. He was 95. Burgie died as a ...