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“I played a 5-string with Lauryn Hill, but it didn’t feel like a real bass”: Raised on R&B, schooled by fusion, and empowered by punk rock, Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer remains a 4-string purist

The bass powerhouse behind Washington DC’s Bad Brains pioneered a style that changed the history of punk

Guitar World

‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond

Inspired by a boxing, DJing nun, the trombonist laid down the foundations of reggae – but he was also a schizophrenic who killed his girlfriend, Jamaica’s ‘rhumba queen’ Margarita. A new graphic novel retells their stories

The Guardian - UK

‘Firebrand, poet and heart-throb’: how the film One Love captures the truth about Bob Marley

I was at the reggae superstar’s side before and after he escaped assassination. The new film took me back to this time, of love triangles, London punks and cold war conflict

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Bob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up

With Marley’s family on board, this officially-approved life story serves up the hits but skirts some big questions

The Guardian - UK

“The drum, it is the heartbeat, and the bass, it is the backbone” Listen to Aston “Family Man” Barrett’s isolated bassline on Bob Marley’s Is This Love

Bob Marley’s enduring hit is rife with reggae bass Barrett-isms: quarter-note triplets, resting on one, and unison riffs

Guitar World

Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, bassist with Bob Marley and the Wailers, dies aged 77

Influential musician also co-produced group’s albums and mentored many Jamaican artists

The Guardian - UK

‘He’s a man with a fork in a world of soup’: the bitterest music-duo spats

With Hall & Oates now saying ‘no can do’ to their partnership, we look at the other pop pairs who fell out of harmony

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10 reggae records that every bass fan should know

The 10 best reggae albums from Jamaica’s main bass men. From Sly and Robbie to Bob Marley and the Wailers

Guitar World

See inside the Bob Marley One Love Experience in Hollywood

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Cedella Marley stood at the entrance of the Bob Marley One Love Experience, an interactive exhibit devoted to the life and legacy of her father, a few days before it opened on Jan. 27 for a 12-week run in the heart of Hollywood.

The Orange County Register

‘My mum used to cook for the Wailers!’: Leeds puts its West Indian history on display

With illegal blues parties in basements and impassioned activism across the city, Windrush was more than just a London story – as this new string of events proves

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