Clive Davis’ death at age 94 on June 22 closed another chapter in the history of popular music. Along with Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records, Berry Gordy of Motown Records and Herb Alpert of A&M Records, he was responsible for developing the careers of superstars. In his case, Bruce Springsteen, Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys.

In the late 1970s, Davis signed a fledgling reggae band called Native to Arista Records, the company he started in 1974 after leaving Columbia Records. His brief association with Jamaican music was not successful.

Wayne Jobson, Native’s guitarist/vocalist, told Observer Online that Arista was supposed to release an album the band recorded with producer Lee “Scratch” Perry and singer Joe Higgs at Perry’s Black Ark Studio in Kingston.