Ska and Jamaican jazz

Location · 1960s → · Kingston · Hybrids and world

In Kingston in the early 1960s, jazz-trained musicians record for producers such as Coxsone Dodd. Tommy McCook, back from the Bahamas in June 1962, plays regular jazz sessions in the city; Roland Alphonso and Don Drummond appear on Dodd's jazz releases of 1962-1963. In 1964 these musicians found the Skatalites, whose first public concert takes place in May at the Hi-Hat Club in Rae Town. The band splits in August 1965, after Don Drummond's arrest on 1 January 1965, then reforms in 1983 at the Reggae Sunsplash festival.

Where it comes from

• Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's)

Artists

• Don Drummond (1932–1969, trombone)
• Tommy McCook (1927–1998, tenor saxophone)
• Ernest Ranglin (1932, guitar)

Tracks to start with

• Man in the Street — Don Drummond (1964)
• Exodus — Tommy McCook (1963)
• Below the Bass Line — Ernest Ranglin (1996)

Sources

• EN : The Skatalites

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