Val Bennett has been played on NTS in shows including Asher G's Caribbean Memories, featured first on 27 August 2020. Songs played include One Way Street, The Arabian Sound Of Reggae and Bogie Reggae.

Val Bennett ( Lovall Bennett, died 1991) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist and jazz and roots reggae musician who began his career in the 1940s. He made a number of releases on the Island Records and Crab Records labels.

In the late 1940s, Bennett led his own band, the Val Bennett Orchestra. Artists that played in Bennett's band included Jah Jerry Haynes, Lloyd Knibb, and Ernest Ranglin, whose first professional experience was…