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It's not often that nearly four-decade-old music manages to be both seminal and cutting edge, but these 32 hits from Jamaica's--and the world's--greatest ska outfit are just that. Early ska blended R&B shuffle with mento (Jamaican calypso)--Jamaica's antic response to stateside boogie-woogie. Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, the late Tommy McCook, and the other Skatalites injected the swinging sophistication of jazz-honed chops, and this set captures the band just starting out, during their '64-'65 tenure at Coxsonne Dodd's legendary Studio One. Ska's buoyant appeal has never died, merely gone underground now and then, and it
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Manufacturer: Heartbeat / Pgd
Release date: 9 September 1997
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0011661768529 UPC: 011661768529
Release date: 9 September 1997
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0011661768529 UPC: 011661768529
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