Just weeks after a tour in Europe and appearances in Japan, the New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble is making a stop in Blue Bell for the Beachcomber Swim Club’s first, and hopefully annual, end-of-the-summer ...

For casual fans and newcomers to the music of Jamaica (a growing number, given the popularity of the BBC / France 2 TV mystery series Death in Paradise and its Jamaican-infused soundtrack), the ...

In 2003, the time was right. A world-record attempt to have the largest number of horn players on stage at the same time playing the ska-skank saw a slew of musicians take the stage at St Kilda's ...

It’s another great week for ska, and here’s a roundup of some new songs (and one album) out this week that we highly recommend checking out. New Haven ska-punk vets Sgt. Scag have been at it since the ...

New York Ska Jazz Ensemble were formed in the mid '90s by a group of musicians who were simultaneously in love with both the jazz that permeated the streets of their home city and the sounds of ska ...

The collaborative album Avila is the latest release from pioneering guitarist Ernest Ranglin. Guitarist Ernest Ranglin is an elder statesman of Jamaican music. A self-styled composer and improviser, ...

Something has changed in the ska world. Ska shows, with attendance in the thousands, local bar ska nights and even television ads with ska jingles are becoming ever less frequent. Frat kids are tuning ...

Read the introduction to Hell of a Hat: The Rise of '90s Ska & Swing by Kenneth Partridge. By Kenneth Partridge The following is an excerpt from Hell of a Hat: The Rise of ’90s Ska and Swing, written ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Nominated for a BBC World Music award this year in the boundary-crossing category, Ska Cubano deliver ...