The Wire (11/99, p.69) - "...the signature saxophone of Tommy McCook...became a dominant sound across all modern Jamaican music....This release collects a series of tunes cut for both Clement Dodd and Duke Reid, many on CD for the first time....[about] as definitive as it can get..."
Personnel includes: Tommy McCook (tenor saxophone); Ernest Ranglin, Jerome Haines (guitar); Roland Alphonso (tenor saxophone); Jackie Mittoo (piano); Lloyd Mason, Lloyd Brevett (bass); Lloyd Knibb (drums).
Producer: C.S. Dodd.
Compilation producers: C.S. Dodd, Chris Wilson, Brian Keyo.
Engineers include: C. Dodd, Syd Bucknor, Graham Goodall.
Recorded in Kingston, Jamaica betweem 1962 and 1965. Includes liner notes by Brian Keyo.
Digitally remastered by Toby Mountain.