Article: Purity remains in Black Uhuru's reggae

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 ...

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