John Masouri

The nineties were a golden age for both reggae and dancehall music and thanks to Echoes, I was able to write about so much of what was...

It was VP Records' Murray Elias who conceived and oversaw this tribute to Jamaican producer Joe Gibbs, and then commissioned me to write...

When I wrote the liner notes to this Charly Records' reissue in 2011 I still hadn't interviewed the Last Poets and any insights I did...

Maxi has been a family friend for years, and my admiration for the man and his music runs deep. EMI commissioned these liner notes in...

Snapper Music again, and with a classic reissue by jazz musician Don Cherry that allowed me the freedom to write about another form of...

When Sanctuary bought RAS Records they embarked on a major reissue programme based around Doctor Dread's famous label. All things...

I met Gregory Isaacs on many occasions over the years but only interviewed him once, after I'd given a speech in his honour at the...

George Clinton again, and with "the heaviest black rock band since Jimi Hendrix’s Band Of Gypsys." It was the comparisons to Hendrix's...

Archie Shepp's story intersects with so many fascinating areas of musical and social history that it was a joy researching and writing...

I first met Sizzla when he was still at high school. Homer Harris introduced me to him at Grove rehearsal studios in Kingston in 1993 and...