May 31
R.I.P. STEVE BARROW [ 1945 ☆ 2026 ]. Saddened to learn of the passing of this leading expert on Jamaican music, author, journalist, curator, record producer, and wonderful mentor whom I met several times in the 1990's and 2000's. We have lost an inexhaustible source of knowledge; without him, there would have been no serious reissue policy in the 80's at Island Records, Trojan, Attack, and then the following decade on his legendary own label Blood & Fire... He was also a jazz fanatic. On the pictured here with the artist TAPPER ZUKIE, London, 1976.
