{"id":5640,"date":"2025-01-20T22:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/acclaimed-reggae-documentary-to-make-nyc-premiere-at-bronx-music-hall\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T22:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T22:16:04","slug":"acclaimed-reggae-documentary-to-make-nyc-premiere-at-bronx-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/acclaimed-reggae-documentary-to-make-nyc-premiere-at-bronx-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Acclaimed reggae documentary to make NYC premiere at Bronx Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Feb. 1, the newly-opened Bronx Music Hall will host the New York City premiere of the 2019 documentary, \u201cStudio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes,\u201d which chronicles the roots of the genre beginning from a family-owned record store in Kingston, Jamaica.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The late legendary producer Quincy Jones called \u201cStudio 17\u201d one of his favorite documentaries at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s documentaries like this that bring us closer to the music,\u201d said Jones via Forbes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The film traces the beginnings of a used record store called Randy\u2019s, founded by a Chinese-Jamaican couple in downtown Kingston in the early 1960s. The store evolved into a recording studio and starting base for poor but up-and-coming reggae artists including <\/span>Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the late 1970s, Clive Chin and his family fled political violence in Jamaica and came to New York City, leaving behind a trove of over 1,000 unreleased recordings that Clive only began restoring after his son\u2019s murder in 2011, according to a 2021 GQ <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> about the film.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film tackles not only the struggle to retain the rights to the studio\u2019s archive but also the unsolved killing of Clive\u2019s son, Joel Chin, who worked for the family\u2019s record label and signed major dancehall stars including Sean Paul and Beenie Man. Joel Chin was shot to death in 2011 outside his home in Kingston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had to find something to honor him, and by doing that, the tapes,\u201d said Clive Chin in the <\/span>film<\/span><\/a>, which features archival footage as well as interviews with some of reggae\u2019s most prominent musicians.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the GQ piece, filmmaker Reshma B said the documentary has been very well-received, which speaks to the international appeal of reggae.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReggae music comes from Jamaica but this music is listened to worldwide,\u201d she said. \u201cAs such, it deserves to be represented on a mainstream level with the same quality and the same care as every other genre.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Reshma B also pointed to the influence of reggae on the birth of hip-hop in the Bronx: \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Jamaican sound systems, there wouldn\u2019t be hip hop. Remember that Kool Herc was a Jamaican kid who strung up some speaker boxes in the Bronx and threw a party that changed music forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited and honored to host the New York City premiere of <\/span>\u201cStudio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes\u201d <\/span>at The Bronx Music Hall,\u201d said Elena Mart\u00ednez, co-artistic director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center. \u201cThis is a fascinating film about one of Jamaica\u2019s most legendary recording studios with amazing songs that are now finally able to reach the audiences they deserve.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Feb. 1 screening will begin with a 6 p.m. reception featuring DJ Madout and Jamaican food by 2 Girls & a Cookshop. The film will begin at 7 p.m. and will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker and music journalist Reshma B, Studio 17 recording artist Carl Malcolm and Pat McCay of Sirius XM. Tickets are $15 at <\/span>bronxmusichall.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reach Emily Swanson at\u00a0<\/i><\/span>eswanson@schnepsmedia.com<\/i><\/span> or (646) 717-0015. For more coverage, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @bronxtimes<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Feb. 1, the newly-opened Bronx Music Hall will host the New York City premiere of the 2019 documentary, \u201cStudio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes,\u201d which chronicles the roots of the genre beginning from a family-owned record store in Kingston, Jamaica.\u00a0 The late legendary producer Quincy Jones called \u201cStudio 17\u201d one of his favorite documentaries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandflavaradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}