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Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society

GRASS on Fire: Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Plays Catch a Fire

By Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society

Label: Mighty Gowanus Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Concrete Jungle; Baby We've Got a Date; Slave Driver; 400 Years; Kinky Midnight; Stir It Up; Stop That Train; High Tide; No More Trouble.

Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: GRASS on Fire: Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Plays Catch a Fire

by Chris M. Slawecki
November 28, 2011

At first look, jazz seems to have little use for reggae. After all, isn't the essence of jazz its flights of improvisatory fancy, while reggae's trademark is that resolute, lockdown rhythm? But a solid point from which to take off and return is most helpful when flying, and reggae provides a rhythmic foundation more solid than ...

Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society Will Celebrate Release of "G.R.A.S.S. On Fire" With Show at the Apple Store in Soho on March 22

March 10, 2011

CD Features Group's Instrumental Interpretation of Music from Bob Marley's Catch A Fire On March 22, the eleven members of G.R.A.S.S. will celebrate the recent release of G.R.A.S. S. on Fire with a performance at the Apple Store in Soho. Showtime is 7 PM, and the store is located at 103 Prince Street. For more information ...

Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society: G.R.A.S.S. On Fire

by Jerry D'Souza
February 10, 2011

The Gowanus Reggae and Ska Society was fermented when a group of jazz musicians who shared the same vision for reggae got together for jam sessions at the home of keyboardist Nate Shaw. Their love of the music coalesced into a more tangent form when they presented the soundtrack to the 1972 film, The Harder They ...