Studio One Ska (The Original) (Vinyl 2xLP) Hip Hop

Studio One Ska (The Original) (Vinyl 2xLP) Hip HopStudio One Records and the seminal in house band The Skatalites both created and defined Ska in the process making Jamaican music famous throughout the world. This compilation features classic vocal and instrumental tracks from The Skatalites, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Delroy Wilson alongside super rare tracks from the likes of Ken Boothe, The Maytals, Jackie Mittoo, Tommy McCook and many more.

The album uniquely combines the light with the dark

Gallen in Switzerland

the band have consistently set themselves apart from the acts they came up playing with

the I-Threes

while he was also the leader of the Military Music Departments in Heliopolis

It is summed up by the staggeringly gorgeous 9-minute opener

rounded voice with the typical tone heard in the creole outdoor musical gatherings

this legendary date with the still-undersung Sonny Clark in the leader's chair also featured a young Jackie McLean on alto (playing with a smoother tone than he had before or ever did again)

" Never has an artist unknowingly written such a beautiful and apropos living epitaph

don't fear no one

regardless of genre

which comes off like 'Eleanor Rigby's electrified cousin