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The Skatalites are a Jamaican music group that played a major role in popularising ska, the first truly Jamaican music created by fusing boogie-woogie blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, mento, calypso, and African rhythms. They recorded many of their best known songs, including Guns of Navarone, in the period between 1964 and 1965, as well as played on records by Prince Buster and many other Jamaican artists. The founding members of the group were Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, Lloyd Brevett, Lloyd Knibb, Lester Sterling, Don Drummond, Jerome "Jah Jerry" Haynes, Jackie Mittoo, Johnny Moore and Jackie Opel. Check our available Skatalites concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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It's easy to forget that there's a lot to a ska record. Focusing on the bones of it might mean you miss the meat entirely, but just a few minutes into the Skatalites Walk with Me had me sore from pigeon-necking. That signature ska rhythm is so constant and satisfyingly forthright that the stellar musicianship becomes almost easy to overlook--but you shouldn't...
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In 1983 all of the original Skatalites (minus trombonist Don Drummond) reformed to appear at Sunsplash in Jamaica where they supported Bob Marley. While they were in JA preparing for the show, they recorded ten tracks at Music Mountain studio under the guidance of producer/promoter Tony Owens. This is the *first time* any of this amazing material has been heard before. Includes tribute song 'Big Trombone' with vocal by Lord Tanamo.
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The heavily anticipated vinyl re-release of Volume Two of the Skatalites marathon ska-blowout -- Stretching Out. Come ye revelers to hear the original Skatalites, in their prime, in long extended jam sessions, recorded live in Jamaica in 1983 at the Blue Monk Jazz Gallery nightclub before their friends and fellow musicians...
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In 1975 the first reunion of ska pioneers The Skatalites resulted in the release of The Legendary Skatalites. Soon after, a dub set Herb Dub - Collie Dub, but only in very limited numbers on vinyl. This will be the abum's first full release. Three tracks were recorded at Lee Perry's Black Ark Studio and mixed by King Tubby. The rest were mixed at Aquarius. Musicians include Roland Alphonso, Lloyd Brevett, Tommy McCook, Ernest Ranglin, Jackie Mittoo and Augustus Pablo.....
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You might love the Skatalites without knowing who they are?the founders of ska, a kind of Jamaican jazz. They backed Bob Marley and Desmond Decker before they became the Skatalites. Born from mainly African-American influences, the band has gone on to pioneer the ska sound. Keyboardist/manager Ken Stewart and drummer Lloyd Knibb talked to All About Jazz recently when the band came to Caracas on its forty-year anniversary tour. All About Jazz: This tour celebrates forty years of the Skatalites...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
The Skatalites helped usher in the modern age of Jamaican music in the early 1960s by mixing American R&B; with jazz chops and funky rhythms with the island's African-derived folk music. The musicians comprised the house band for Studio One, and they moonlighted for countless other producers, but it wasn't until 1964, a few years after they helped create ska music, that they took on the name Skatalites...
- www.jazztimes.com
Recorded live in 1983 on a two-track TEAC and God knows what else by a reconstituted bunch of originators, some of whom hadn't seen one another in a decade and wished it was longer, this forty-eight-minutes-a-side retrospective sounds better than the '60s studio rarities Top Deck compiled a few years ago and is a lot of fun to boot. We're talking party soundtrack for lazybones, the universal polka hop-and-shuffle of a thousand folk dances...
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The Skatalites took influences from jazz, calypso and US rhythm 'n' blues to help create the sound that dominated Jamaican sixties music. After falling from favour on their island home (and losing original trombonist Don Drummond), the group followed separate careers until reforming for the 1983 Reggae Sunsplash in Kingston. Since then they've toured the world (which along with a little misfortune) has kept them out of the studio till now...
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