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Cedric Brooks. Cedric "Im" Brooks (27 April 1943 – 3 May 2013) was a Jamaican saxophonist and flautist known for his solo recordings and as a member of The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, The Sound Dimensions, Divine Light, The Light of Saba, and The Skatalites.
Real Rock. " Real Rock " is an instrumental reggae song by the Jamaican band Sound Dimension. It was recorded in 1967 at Jamaica Recording Studio in Kingston, Jamaica, and released as a single in 1968 by Studio One. [1] [2] The song was produced by Clement "Coxsone" Dodd and performed by Eric Frater (guitar), Boris Gardiner (bass guitar), Phil ...
Genres. Ska, rocksteady, reggae, funk. Instrument. Keyboards. Labels. Studio One. Donat Roy Mittoo (3 March 1948 – 16 December 1990), better known as Jackie Mittoo, [1] was a Jamaican-Canadian keyboardist, songwriter and musical director. [2] He was a member of The Skatalites and musical director of the Studio One record label. [3]
Suedehead. traditional skinhead. Madness performing in 2005. Ska (/ skɑː /; Jamaican Creole: skia, [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [ 1 ] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.
At the age of 12, General Levy began writing lyrics and went on to form his first sound system with friends, two years later, named Third Dimension. [ 7 ] General Levy's first major releases were with the independent record label Fashion Records, who signed a distribution deal with London Records for the re-releases of the tracks he had recorded.
Reggae (/ ˈ r ɛ ɡ eɪ /) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. [1] A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word reggae, effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.
Leroy Sibbles (born Leroy Sibblies, 29 January 1949) is a Jamaican reggae musician and producer. He was the lead singer for The Heptones in the 1960s and 1970s.. In addition to his work with The Heptones, Sibbles was a session bassist and arranger at Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's Jamaica Recording and Publishing Studio and the associated Studio One label during the prolific late 1960s.
A New Chapter of Dub is an album by English reggae band Aswad, released by Island Records in April 1982. The record is a dub version of Aswad's previous album New Chapter (1981), and was produced by the group with Michael "Reuben" Campbell. Having felt New Chapter under-performed commercially because it was too intricate for mainstream reggae ...