mento

I myself was no telepath and I couldn't help the situation but I learned that the effect of this was a kind of mento-jamming.

Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977

As a new book devoted to the label's cover art illustrates, Studio One also branched out into gospel, calypso and mento recordings, and even sessions by Indian devotional musician Sri Chinmoy.

The art of Studio One 2011

One of the difficulties was trying to understand what attracted people, women and men to Andrew Robinson Stoney when obviously he was such a villain.

Wendy Moore explains how she came to write Wedlock, the true story of the disastrous marriage and remarkable divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore 2010

It took him a lifetime (67 last week) to fully alchemize the two idioms—bebop and island music (reggae, calypso, mento)—and it requires a full cast of three drummers, assorted bassists and guitarists and even a second keyboard, plus Mr. Alexander doubling on melodica.

The Sound Way Down in the Underground Will Friedwald 2011

It took him a lifetime (67 last week) to fully alchemize the two idioms—bebop and island music (reggae, calypso, mento)—and it requires a full cast of three drummers, assorted bassists and guitarists and even a second keyboard, plus Mr. Alexander doubling on melodica.

The Sound Way Down in the Underground Will Friedwald 2011

Both groups blend a North American jazz frontline trumpet and tenor, here Ron Blake and Marcus Printup with rhythms from Jamaica and Trinidad, such as mento, calypso, ska and reggae.

The Jazz Scene: Hot Tones, Francophones Will Friedwald 2011

Though not necessarily the best mento group ever recorded, The Hiltonaires may have been the most prolific, recording six LPs during mento's middle period.

ska-motion in ska-lip-so phantom of the radio 2010

He plays mento music, a reggae and ska precursor with a slower-paced, clipped, chugging sound.

Special Report: Hidden Caribbean Forbes Life Staff 2010

Though not necessarily the best mento group ever recorded, The Hiltonaires may have been the most prolific, recording six LPs during mento's middle period.

Archive 2010-05-01 baikinange 2010

This week at Dizzy's, the Kingston-born pianist Monty Alexander is demonstrating how to combine jazz with the musical forms of Jamaica and Trinidad including mento, calypso, ska and reggae as only he can do it.

July Time Is the Right Time to Hear the Ones We Love 2010