The drummer half of the influential duo Sly & Robbie, Sly Dunbar, shown around 2000, helped shape modern reggae for decades. He was a two-time Grammy winner. (Peter Noble / Redferns / Getty Images) ...

Sly Dunbar, whose drumming with bassist Robbie Shakespeare made for an all-but-unrivaled reggae rhythm section utilized by such greats as Bob Marley, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, has died. He was 73.

The Beatles knew how to make excellent music in many different genres and they continued to display that talent after the band broke up. For instance, Ringo Starr released a reggae song with a titan ...

The Global Drum Project takes its name from the recent CD featuring former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and tabla king Zakir Hussein. These gents performed on the groundbreaking Planet Drum album ...

Ready to rock out with the relaxing appeal of reggae beats? Robert Rachelli is known for his drumming in Santa Barbara County rock and reggae bands, including Lion I’s, Turning Trees, and Spencer the ...

Tuviel Levi, music producer and owner of Interplay Recording and Multimedia studio in Boulder, has a long-term relationship with African drum music and reggae. When he was growing up in Brooklyn, New ...

PORTSMOUTH — Records show in 1645 the first known Black person in Portsmouth was an enslaved man captured from Guinea who was sold to a man residing in the Piscataqua region. That’s according to the ...

Festivals, anniversary parties and other multi-act gatherings dominate the live music calendar this weekend. Get busy. If you're in need of a heavy dose of Jamaican, and Jamaica-inspired, reggae — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The drummer half of the influential duo Sly & Robbie, Sly Dunbar, shown around 2000, helped shape modern reggae for decades. He ...

LOS ANGELES — Lowell "Sly" Dunbar, the Jamaican drummer whose work in the rhythm section of Sly and Robbie built the backbone of modern reggae, has died. He was 73. Several Jamaican newspapers, ...