Music review: Toots and the Maytals

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert practices good vibes as much as he preaches them through the music of his now 55 years-young Jamaican ensemble Toots and the Maytals – literally the group to give reggae its name with their 1968 single Do the Reggay. After being hit in the head with a glass bottle at a show in the US in 2013 – causing him serious injury and forcing him to cease touring for a long spell – the 74-year-old nobly tried in vain to get his assailant’s jail sentence reduced by writing to the judge to say: “He is a young man, and I have heard what happens to young men in jail.”