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| + artist ........... Monty Alexander With Ernest Ranglin |
| + album ............ Rocksteady |
| + label ............ TELARC |
| + cat .............. CD-83581 |
| + year ............. 2004 |
| + genre ............ Jazz |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date ..... 02.07.2004 |
| + size ............. 83,5 MB |
| + link ............. http://www.telarc.com/ |
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| 01.Double Barrel 04:56 |
| 02.Confucius 04:45 |
| 03.Stalag 17 04:25 |
| 04.Marcus Garvey 04:33 |
| 05.Nightwork 05:21 |
| 06.East Of The River Nile 05:15 |
| 07.Israelites 04:16 |
| 08.Row Fisherman 04:52 |
| 09.Freedom Street 04:38 |
| 10.Pressure Drop 04:57 |
| 11.At The Feast 05:43 |
| 12.Redemption Song 03:56 |
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| (t!) total 57:37 min |
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| Musicians: |
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| Monty Alexander (piano); |
| Ernest Ranglin (guitar); |
| Junior Jazz (rhythm guitar); |
| Gary Mayone (keyboards); |
| Hassan Shakur (bass); |
| Quentin Baxter (drums); |
| Courtney Panton (hand drums); |
| Toots Hibbert (vocals). |
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| Having solidly established his reputation as an invigorating jazz |
| pianist, whose primary objective in every performance is to engage |
| the audience in his music, Monty Alexander has been going back to |
| the Jamaican music with which he started his professional career |
| while he was still a teen, especially so ever since he signed with |
| Telarc. |
| Indeed, all of Alexander's Telarc CDs, even My America, include |
| doses of Jamaican feel, which apparently is an important component |
| of Alexander's recent performances. |
| Alexander and legendary Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin have |
| recorded separately on Telarc, but now for the first time they are |
| reunited on the same album, Rocksteady, after more than three |
| decades of recording separately. And so, Rocksteady is somewhat a |
| retrospective, recalling their work at Studio One in Kingston |
| where they actively helped to develop the Jamaican music in the |
| 1960's and early 1970's before it reached its peak in the |
| popularity of Bob Marley. Even though Bob Marley is gone, two of |
| the primary innovators of the music are still with us, and now, |
| still recording. |
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| Preconceptions about Jamaica may seem at odds with the CD |
| package's photograph of Alexander drawing his melodica on Ranglin, |
| who's about to return fire with his guitar, as if they're Old West |
| gunfighters in front of modern concrete structures, presumably in |
| Jamaica. But according to Alexander, cowboy movies were very |
| popular in Jamaica, and the accents on the second and fourth beats |
| of ska and reggae derive from approximations of the sound of |
| horses' hooves, whether in trot, canter or gallop. And so, the |
| CD's first track, Double Barrel, which was the first Jamaican hit |
| in the U.S., borrows from the cowboy symbolism as well. |
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| Anyone who expects Alexander to break into the jazz improvisation |
| of his Concord recordings or his participation in the Ray Brown |
| trio will keep listening for it until the CD ends, for all of |
| Rocksteady involves recollection of the music they played in |
| Jamaica's nascent recording industry: the Congos Fisherman's Row, |
| Burning Spears Marcus Garvey, Ken Booths Freedom Street and the |
| Skatellites Confucius. |
| To help complete the reunion, Toots Hibbert, of Toots and the |
| Maytals and whom Ranglin brought to the attention of Studio One |
| producer Clement Coxson Dodd, sings on Pressure Drop. |
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| From Stalag 17s lazing melody over the lightly snapping Jamaican |
| beat to the final Bob Marley meditation that is Redemption Song, |
| Rocksteady comprises a musical reminiscence of Jamaican ska, |
| rocksteady and reggae as the music was being formed and before the |
| rest of the world became aware of the music that characterized the |
| island. And, it reminds listeners of the influence of Monty |
| Alexander even before he moved to Miami with his mother in 1961 |
| and onto a forty-year musical career with some of the |
| entertainment industrys, and jazz's, biggest names. |
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| Artist's Website: http://www.montyalexander.com/ |
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| Enjoy !! |
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