John Masouri

Bobby Digital is a classic example of someone who hides his light under a bushel, unless he's in the studio making music that is. With...

This essential King Jammy's compilation is another title in VP Records' Reggae Anthology series, which is aimed at furthering an...

What a label! I'd bought the records, played them as a DJ and radio presenter, interviewed many of their artists and producers and then...

Like many UK teenagers during the late sixties, I grew up listening to a broad spectrum of music that included pop, blues, rock and roll,...

In 2012, Snapper Music commissioned me to write liner notes for a series of reissues on BYG Actuel - a label founded by three maverick...

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 have were due to producer Alan Douglas, whose recall of these initial recording sessions proved invaluable. Thanks to him I'd first heard the Poets in 1970, on the Performance soundtrack. Like most other people I was shocked at the directness of what they were saying, but spellbound by their use of language and imagery. I've remained a fan of t

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...