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Article: Purity remains in Black Uhuru's reggae
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 11, 1991
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BLACK UHURU
At: The Channel with Burning Flames, Saturday night.
The rhythms of reggae have shifted over time -- they've been
smooth in the hands of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, they've been rude
in the hands of the modern dance-hall rulers. But one of the early
masters of the genre, Black Uhuru, is back at something close to full
force and that's reason enough to celebrate.
It wasn't exactly a given.
The trio -- Duckie Simpson, Garth Dennis and Don Carlos -- started
Black Uhuru in the mid-1970s in Kingston, Jamaica. But Dennis and
Carlos exited well before the band hit its peak, and Black Uhuru's
best-known lineup consisted of Simpson, Michael Rose and Puma Jones.
Rose was the band's ...