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Foundation Ska (CD)

By: The Skatalites (Artist)

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The Skatalites Artist Snapshot:

Ska is to reggae as blues is to rock & roll, and as ska's founders and foremost practitioners, the Skatalites are the single most influential group in Jamaican music. Starting in the mid-'60s, the Skatalites forged a horn-led sound that merged Jamaican mento and calypso with American R&B and jazz, inverting the boogie woogie rhythm for an upbeat accent that would become the trademark of all subsequent reggae. Besides being a self-contained unit that over the years and various incarnations has included luminaries Don Drummond, Ernest Ranglin, Roland Alphonso, and countless others, the Skatalites also served as a house band for Coxsone Dodd at the legendary Studio One, backing a long line of singers on early ska, rocksteady, and reggae hits.

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DISC 1 for Foundation Ska (CD) Album By The Skatalites (Artist)
1   Christine Keeler
2   Fidel Castro
3   Simmer Down - (featuring Bob Marley & The Wailers)
4   Alley Pang
5   Exodus
6   King Solomon
7   Eastern Standard Time
8   World's Fair - (featuring Stranger Cole/Ken Boothe)
9   Two For One
10   I Should Have Known Better
11   Hot Cargo
12   Black Sunday
13   Ska La Parisienne
14   Don D Lion
15   Dick Tracy
16   Hanging Tree
 
DISC 2 for Foundation Ska (CD) Album By The Skatalites (Artist)
1   Scandal Ska
2   Occupation
3   Old Rocking Chair - (featuring Jackie Opel)
4   Third Man Ska
5   Ringo's Theme Ska
6   Ringo's Theme (Version Two)
7   Nimrod
8   Woman A Come - (featuring Margarita)
9   Cleopatra
10   Beardsman Ska
11   Addis Ababa
12   Silver Dollar (Original Version)
13   Vow, The - (featuring Jackie Opel/Doreen Schaffer)
14   Dr. Kildare
15   Killer Diller
16   Naked City
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/25/97, p.168) - "...a sun-ripened blend of stateside RYB, big-band brass voicings and that no-hurry sensuality....the Skatalites changed the face and funk of Jamaican music forever. The vintage killers here...show you how they did it."

Title Note

The Skatalites: Jerry Hines (guitar); Lester Sterling (alto sax); Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso (tenor sax); John Moore (trumpet); Don Drummond (trombone); Jackie Mitto (piano); Lloyd Brevett (bass); Lloyd Knibbs (drums).

Additional personnel: Bob Marley And The Wailers, Stranger Cole, Ken Boothe, Jackie Opel, Margarita, Doreen Schaffer (vocals)

Producers: C.S. Dodd, Duke Reid.

Compilation producer: C.S. Dodd.

Recorded at Jamaica Recording And Publishing, Federal Records, Kingston, Jamaica in 1964 and 1965. Includes liner notes by Chris Wilson, Brian Keyo, Lloyd Knibb and Roland Alphonso.

The influence of the Skatalites on reggae, and on popular music in general, cannot be overestimated. They virtually invented the mid-'60s Jamaican style known as ska by turning American R&B rhythms inside out and giving them an island lilt. Generations of musicians the world over have sought to recapture the magic that was so effortlessly created by the Skatalites on their classic '60s recordings, collected here on a juicy two-disc anthology.

Men like Jackie Mittoo and Roland Alphonso, who subsequently became premier session musicians in Jamaica, forged the Skatalites' unique, rhythmically propulsive sound. The horn stabs of R&B are inverted to punctuate the undulating staccato beat, and vocals, when employed at all, are used mostly as additional coloring. Pure ska, of the type represented here, is essentially an instrumental genre. "Simmer Down" features a young Bob Marley & the Wailers, making it plain just how important the Skatalites were in the development of Jamaican music. If you buy only one ska album, it should be this one.

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