Gilzene and the Blue Light Mento Band revive Jamaica’s earliest recorded music complete with “rhumba box”, while the precocious Portico Quartet carve out their distinctive other-worldly ...

Chambers died this year. The current Blue Glaze Mento Band lineup is Thomas Hamilton (guitar), Samuel Feckleton (guitar), Kenneth Burrell (rumba box), Cosbert Allen (congas) and singer Vernal Morgan.

It was while at the club in 1962 that the young congo player was invited to come and join the band. ‘Pappa’ who had been the Rhumba box player was leaving to follow a different life, and ...

Getting an interview with the Jolly Boys, the leading purveyors of Jamaican “mento” music, wasn’t going to be easy, their New York publicist said. “They mostly live in huts … ...

In Port Antonio on the north side of the island, the Jolly Boys, a mento band formed in 1945 to entertain at Errol Flynn's parties, live a quiet life entertaining the visiting... Show more In Port ...