Jackie Mittoo, born Donat Roy Mittoo, is another one who learned to play piano at 4. He was a founding member of the Skatalites who, after they disbanded in the late sixties, got taken in by Coxone Dodd to be part of the Studio One facility. Roland Alphonso (amazing tenor sax), Johnny Moore, Lloyd Brevett from the Skatalites and some younger musicians Dodd found, were led by Mittoo (arranger, keyboardist, soul master) 1965-67 churned out hundreds of Studio-One rhythms that Dodd would use for his singing artists. Occasionally these Soul Brothers would record their own instrumentals over the rhythms and that is what is on this album. More rocksteady than ska but I love this album.
Jackie Mittoo arranged Marcia Griffiths' (The Queen of Reggae's) first 'hit'. More on her another day. Its not a great link- its just any excuse to play this and I will.. "Feel Like Jumping' from 1968.
No comments:
Post a Comment