Mighty Sparrow

Sparrow Health System is taking over Ionia County Memorial Hospital. Read More

Actually I have no idea if Jared dropped his solo moniker " Sparrow House ", but he is billed at just " Jared Van Fleet " at the show he's playing tonight (12/18) at Sycamore in Brooklyn with Sebastien Schuller (and I wanted the post title to resemble the earlier one about Final Fantasy ). Read More

I have never been one who thought that our "Carnival mentality" was necessarily a bad thing. Read More

Tewari's was created at the Waterloo cremation site. Read More

After 15 minutes shooting the shit about Dilla and Guinean label Sylliphone and how focused Dr Dre was when NWA first dropped, I'm outclassed when he starts talking about Frank Sinatra's use of spring reverb. Read More

The President has rightly condemned the most recent incident of torture and he has given the police two weeks to conduct an investigation, but he cannot afford to be selective on this matter in the face of other torture allegations. Read More

There was a period in my life when the music about me was sung by the great Trinidad calypsonians, Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow and their like. Read More

Trinidad All Stars, Desperadoes and Exodus. Read More

WEDNESDAY'S grand opening night of the eighth annual Trinidad and Tobago Steel Pan and Jazz Festival (TTSJF) at Queens Hall, featuring 3 Canal, The Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet (with special guest pan virtuoso Robert Greenidge) and Exodus Steel Orchestra, alongside saxophonist Sandy Gabriel from the Dominican Republic, offers a look at the complementary interactions and reciprocal influences between TT's musical genres and American jazz. Read More

The September 30 grand opening night of the eighth annual T&T Steel Pan and Jazz Festival (TTSJF) at Queen's Hall, featuring 3Canal, The Delfeayo Marsalis Quintet (with special guest pan virtuoso Robert Greenidge) and Sagicor Exodus Steel Orchestra, alongside saxophonist Sandy Gabriel from the Dominican Republic, offers a look at the complementary interactions and reciprocal influences between T&T's musical genres and American jazz. Read More