The Professionals Meet The Aggrovators - At Joe Gibbs-CD
Artist : The Professionals Meet The Aggrovators
Album : At Joe Gibbs-CD
Year : 2007
Genre : Reggae
Source : CDDA
Label : Jamaican Recordings
CatNr : JRCD026
URL : www.jamaicanrecordings.com
Date : 11-05-2007
Quality : VBR
Size : 50,9 MB
Time : 51:05 min
01 satta dub 03:46
02 dubs not gone forever 03:41
03 dub in vain 03:44
04 ethiopian dub 03:00
05 dub on the beach 03:12
06 we all feel dub 03:37
07 great dub wall 03:28
08 boastful dub 03:58
09 apple yam dub 03:24
10 brown eyes dub 03:26
11 dub island 03:35
12 lonely dub 04:03
13 dub my fire 04:04
14 dub for the meek 04:07
The unsung hero's in the History of Jamaican music can be traced back to
the musicians who cut the thousands upon thousands of tracks that we
know and love today. Each Producer or Studio in Kingston Town Jamaica,
would use their own group of musicians that they favoured. In some cases
the musicians would overlap and be involved in more than one project at
the same time. A prime example of this would be the two bands The
Professionals and The Aggrovators.
The same pool of musicians in this case would include: Carlton 'Santa'
Davis, Carlton Barrett (Drums), Robbie Shakespeare, Aston 'Family Man'
Barrett, Lloyd Parks (Bass). Earl 'Chinna' Smith (Lead guitar), Tony
Chin, Winston 'Bo Beep' (Rhythm Guitar). Ansel Collins (Piano), Bernard
'Touter' Harvey, Winston Wright (Organ). The mighty horn section could
at any time consist of, Bobby Ellis (Trumpet), Vin Gordon (Trombone).
Tommy McCook (Tenor Saxophone) and Lennox Brown (Alto Saxophone). When
Joe Gibbs
recorded his sessions the set of players would go under the guise of The
Professionals and when producer Bunny Lee hired the group it would be
called The Aggrovators.
Joe 'Joel' Gibbs (b.1945) moved to Kingston Town around 1962. His
vastknowledge of electronics lead to the opening of his first shop
selling and repairing Radio & Television sets. Its location happened to
be opposite Leslie Kong's Beverley's Ice Cream Parlour & Record Store,
and on noticing the draw Leslie's shop was getting from the record
buying public, it seemed only natural to follow suit. Working alongside
singer Roy Shirley now as a
producer Joe would meet up with fellow entrepreneur Bunny Lee and a
friendship/working relationship was born.
Out of the two producers Joe Gibb's recording activities would see him
opening his first studio in the Duhaney Park area of Kingston. Bunny Lee
tended to use the various studio set ups around town, for his recording
sessions. A further chapter in this tale would be the arrival of Errol
'E.T.' Thompson. Joe Gibbs met the engineer when in 1971 he opened
another shop/studio on Retirement Crescent. Errol Thompson was working
across the road at Randy's Studio 17 above the record shop of the same
name. They would soon hook up when Errol moved across the road
permanently to become Joe's in house engineer. The mighty Two Production
team was born.
Errol Thompson engineered many of the tracks we have put together for
this album. His skills being next to none and added so much to the
quality of the sessions he was involved in. He was Joe Gibbs eyes and
ears and cut the
sessions ready for Joe's final approval. His personal touches especially
on the dub cuts,can be heard with his use of reverb alongside echo, and
at the time some very off the wall sounds.Always adding a bit of magic
to all his session work. A further twist to this story would see
producer Bunny 'Striker' Lee finally getting his own studio, when he
took over Joe Gibbs Duhaney Park establishment many years later.
So two band names,one set of musicians, two producers, one engineer and
one agender. Some of the finest dubs around, The Professionals Meet The
Aggrovators at Joe Gibbs in fine form....