#60's reggae

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1968

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Today’s compilation:

Três Décadas de Reggae 1996 Reggae

Highlights:

Gregory Isaacs - “Day-O” Black Uhuru - “Brutal” Culture - “Psalm Of Bob Marley” Barrington Levy - “Under Mi Sensi” Augustus Pablo - “555 Crown Street” Beres Hammond - “Putting Up Resistance” Half Pint - “Level The Vibes” Buju Banton & Tenor Saw - “Ring The Alarm Quick” The Techniques - “My Girl” Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus - “Hear The River Jordan”

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Today’s compilation:

Original Ska: All the Hits 1998 Ska / Reggae / Rocksteady

Favorite tracks:

The Pioneers - “Down at the Club” Audrey - “You’ll Lose a Good Thing” The Gaylettes - “Son of a Preacher Man”

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Johnny “Dizzy” Moore & The Skatalites - “Red Is Danger” Skankin’ Ska Song released in 1965. Compilation released in 1999. Ska

The Skatalites are perhaps the most important band in the history of Jamaican music. With a whopping ten founding members, they are known as the first recorded band in the history of ska, nurturing the music’s sound in its earliest days. Without ska, there is no rocksteady, reggae, or its second and third wave revivals (two tone and ska punk).

Johnny “Dizzy” Moore was one of the Skatalites’ founding members. When Moore was a kid, he became interested in music but his parents thought a musician’s lifestyle was a rather rotten one. Moore found out about The Alpha Boys School through a friend, a military school whose aim was to straighten out poorly-behaved boys. It also happened to have a marvelous music program. Moore purposely got himself in to trouble a couple of times and ended up at Alpha, playing trumpet. It turned out to be fruitful because it’s where he and three other Skatalites founding members would learn how to play music.

The initial version of the band only lasted between 1963 and 1965 (it’s difficult to maintain that wealth of talent and egos as a cohesive unit, plus trombonist Don Drummond was clinically insane and murdered his girlfriend), but they recorded a ton of music in that amount of time. In their final year, the Skatalites released “Red Is Danger” with Moore more or less leading on Trumpet.

This song introduces itself with Lloyd Brevett on upright bass providing an unwavering six-note dance rhythm, accentuated by Lloyd Knibb’s drums. After the first handful of bars, the horn section joins in along with “Jah Jerry” Haynes providing the signature choppy guitar “skank” rhythm, in which, like a metronome, he strokes on each offbeat (the second and fourth beats). A little after a minute in, Moore launches into a solo consisting of a bunch of long notes and some sputtering shorter ones. He is then followed by a sax solo from either Tommy McCook or Roland Alphonso (it’s uncredited). The horns then all reunite together, playing the original melody they established in the beginning.

A mid-60s instrumental jazzy ska dance tune from ska’s original band.

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