A dozen years ago, finding Jamaican mento music from the 1950s was nearly impossible. The pre-ska, acoustic calypso music -- which can still be heard on the island's resorts and tourist spots -- was ...
MENTO, the earliest recorded form of Jamaican popular music, was essentially a live music played by jazz-tinged dance bands in the early to late 1950S and differed from its Trinidadian calypso cousin ...