Cedric Im Brooks - Im Flash Forward
Artist : Cedric Im Brooks
Album : Im Flash Forward
Year : 1977
Genre : Reggae
Source : Vinyl
Label : Studio One
CatNr : SOLP 00330
URL : n/a
Date : 15-04-2007
Quality : VBR
Size : 48,2 MB
Time : 30:07 min
01 glory to sound 03:00
02 give rasta glory 04:13
03 father forgive 03:10
04 walking through 02:44
05 free man 02:54
06 right time 02:57
07 smiley 02:02
08 why can't i 03:11
09 idle berg 02:59
10 picture on the wall 02:57
Tenor saxophonist Cedric "Im" Brooks is one of Jamaica's most
adventuresome musicians. Born in 1943 in Kingston, Brooks has the heart
of a bop jazzman beating to a reggae rhythm, and his experiments with
ancient rasta nyahbinghi drum patterns has led him to fuse elements of
calypso, rhumba, jazz, Afro-beat, funk, Latin, and soul into a totally
unique, Sun Ra-like synthesis. His first notable recordings were done
with trumpeter David Madden in the late '60s for legendary producer
Coxsone Dodd. Brooks soon became a mainstay at Dodd's Studio One
recording facility in Kingston, joining with fellow Jamaican jazz
musicians like Ernest Ranglin, Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso, and Vin
Gordon to form a loose confederation of players that constituted the
greatest house band in Jamaican musical history. Their various Studio
One backing tracks have been versioned repeatedly and form the very
backbone of the island's musical heritage. Brooks released a marvelous
album called Im Flash Forward playing sax over some of these famous
tracks in 1977. He teamed with nyahbinghi drummer and bandleader Count
Ossie for two groundbreaking albums that fused rasta drumming with jazz
overtones: Grounation and Tales of Mozambique. With his own orchestra,
Brooks released The Light of Saba in 1974 and the multi-layered,
big-band masterpiece United Africa in 1978. Combining traditional
African and Jamaican approaches with what comes closest to free jazz,
Brooks has continually given himself no limits, and his body of work is
as fascinating and indispensable as any other musician on the island.