July 1
On July 1 in Jamaican music: we remember Dennis Brown (1999), 21 releases dated to this day, including Life in the Ghetto by Yellowman (1991), 1 moment from the Island Chronicle and 5 stories from the news archive.
Released on this day
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Remembered on this day
Voices we lost on this date. Their music is still in the library.
- 1999 Dennis Brown
Moments from the Chronicle
- 1978
In 1978, at the age of 16, Hugh Mundell recorded the album Africa Must Be Free By 1983, produced by Augustus Pablo- Mundell writing all the songs. It included two Black Ark-recorded titles: "Let's All Unite" and "Why Do Black Man Fuss & Fight", both supervised and mixed by Lee Perry. The album received five stars from Rolling Stone magazine and was included in Tom Moon's 2008 book, 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. He was a major influence on Junior Reid, who was three years younger- Mundell was the first to record Reid. Source ↗
Stories published on this day
From the JamaicansMusic newsroom, going back to 2008.
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