CARLOS MALCOLM - SKA MANIA - original Jamaican ska LP
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CARLOS MALCOLM
SKA MANIA
Ska bandleader Carlos Malcolm was an underappreciated figure of the music's early days. A native of Kingston, Malcolm received formal musical training and broke into the business playing trombone with the legendary Don Drummond in a jazz group in the late '50s. In 1962, he was tapped to head the ten-piece house orchestra of the newly established state radio organization the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation, and wrote some of the first formal ska arrangements as a result.
He also composed uncredited music for the soundtrack of the first James Bond film, Dr. No (which was partly filmed in Jamaica), and formed his own group, the Afro-Jamaican Rhythms, whose music melded ska, African, Latin, and jazz rhythms.
They scored hits in Jamaica with several singles, and they also recorded three albums, the most prominent of which was, the group's second album. Featuring such recent singles as "Skarmaouche," "Wings of a Dove," and "Hopalong Kassidy." But the song that best sums up their intent is "Skamania," led by Winston Turner's exhilarating, dizzying trumpet blasts. This stunning, nearly six-minute medley exuberantly melds together mento faves, beautifully tying together that indigenous style with the new ska sound that had swept the island.
LISTEN TO PART OF THIS RECORD HERE!
As keen as Malcolm was to incorporate Jamaican folk music into the band's own repertoire, he was equally eager to blend in jazz, R&B, Spanish stylings, and Afro-Cuban rhythms with the group's covers ranging as far afield as the inspired "Hunchback No. 1," where jazz slams straight into R&B and rocks right into ska, "Tip Toe" through cool, sophisticated Latin-spiced fields, or bossa nova along with the skanking "Sweetie Charlie," swing with the big band sound of "Run for Cover," or fly away on the ska-themic "Dove."
It's a phenomenal album from one of the island's greatest groups, one that has remained in the shadows for far too long. [Steve Huey & Jo-Ann Greene – ALL MUSIC GUIDE]
This is a vintage JAMAICAN pressing of this legendary album and is on the Up-Beat Records label.
TRACK LISTING:
- Run For Cover
- Hunchback No. 1
- Tip Toe
- Earthman
- Skokian
- Sweetie Charlie
- Head Shrinker
- Skaramouche
- Hopalong Kassidy
- Wings Of A Dove
CONDITION: RECORD is VG+ / JACKET is VG++ with inscription on back.
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