{"id":13641,"date":"2025-01-20T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13641"},"modified":"2025-02-16T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T20:51:56","slug":"studio-17-the-lost-reggae-tapes-premieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/01\/20\/studio-17-the-lost-reggae-tapes-premieres\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes&#8217; Premieres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/reggae-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Bronx Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acclaimed reggae documentary to make NYC premiere at Bronx Music Hall<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/author\/emily-swanson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Emily Swanson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STUDIO 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes Official Trailer\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RR8wo_QRHKU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u00a0Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry, Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/reggae-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Bronx Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Bronx Times Acclaimed reggae documentary to make NYC premiere at Bronx Music Hall By\u00a0Emily Swanson 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}