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Bob Marley performs onstage at the Uptown Theater, Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 1979. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
ASHTON BARRETT

Bob Marley biopic: Less legend, more human

Film has all the hits, none of the misses – and very little of the miss-e

  • Charles Leonard
8 min read
Standby: An album of unreleased music by the late Jamaican reggae musician Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is due out soon. (Paul Bergen/Redferns)
EMAHOY TSEGUE MARYAM GUEBROU

Starting the year on the right note

Setting my musical intentions for 2024, I select four upcoming albums that made my heart race

  • Charles Leonard
8 min read
Mad about music: Sudanese musician Jantra, whose name translates as “craziness”, with his trusty blue Yamaha keyboard, playing at a party in DarGoog in Sudan recently. His album Synthesized Sudan was released by Ostinato Records earlier this year. Photo: Janto Koité/Ostinato Records
SYNTHESIZED SUDAN

The hidden music of Africa is a whole ‘nother reissue

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  • Charles Leonard
1 min read
​​Limitless vision: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in the mid-70s at the Black Ark studio, which he built in his backyard. It was subsequently destroyed in a fire. Photo: Ted Bafaloukos
BOB MARLEY

The Portfolio: How Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry gave Bob Marley his chops

An extract from the biography ‘People Funny Boy’: how the maverick producer transformed the sound of reggae and its number-one group

  • David Katz
3 min read