Soul Jazz Records Presents - Studio One: Freedom Sounds: Studio One in the 1960 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soul Jazz Records classic Studio One Groups collection is now available as a new one-off limited edition red coloured CD anniversary pressing! 15 years on from it's original Studio One Groups remains one of the toughest of all Soul Jazz/Studio One releases and features some of the biggest groups in the history of Reggae music including Bob Marley and The Wailers, Toots and the Maytals and The Heptones who all began their careers at 13 Brentford Road, under the guidance of the great producer and tag owner Clement Sir Coxsone Dodd. Featuring many classic and killer tunes from The Wailing Souls, Carlton and His Shoes, The Gladiators, The Ethiopians, The Mad Lads and more. Studio One Groups brings together numerous classic artists alongside a number of rarities and delves into Studio Ones musical output in it's prime in the 1960s and 70s featuring Ska, Roots, Rocksteady, Dub and more. Clement Dodds role in launching and nurturing Reggae groups and singers is unsurpassed and Studio Ones success was due to Dodds ability to see talent, surround himself with it and nurture artists. Launching Bob Marley and The Wailers career also meant housing Marley in a flat in the studio compound and employing him in an A&R role, checking out the latest American soul and jazz 45s for Studio One artists to cover. In similar fashion Leroy Sibbles, lead vocalist with the Heptones, became the key in-house bass player after being taught from scratch by Jackie Mittoo. Studio One Groups were at the heart of the tag's success. The sweet three-part harmonies, so close to the heart of Jamaican music, can be heard throughout every stylistic change of Reggae music Ska, Rocksteady, Roots and beyond - all of which are featured here in their vocalised glory. Album Tracks 1. The Wailing Souls - Mr Fire Coal Man 2. Righteous Flames - Solid Foundation 3. The Gaylads - Give a Helping Hand 4. Th

This new Studio collection on Soul Jazz Records delves deep into a melting pot world of reggae and funk and dub created at the music laboratory of 13 Brentford Road, Kingston in the 1970s - an intense collaboration of crack musicians, singers, DJs and engineers under the guidance of producer Clement 'Coxsone' Dodd.Here you will find some of the deepest and rawest cuts to emanate out the Studio One factory - truly hypnotic rhythms, powerful funk guitar and bass, soaring horns and more interspersed with occasional vocals and toasting as musicians reach for the highest heights and deepest roots of reggae music. Some of these tunes here are rare and classic versions to seminal Studio One vocal cuts from the likes of Horace Andy and Hortense Ellis. There is also a wealth of cuts from simply the greatest musicians ever to come out of Jamaica (let alone Studio One). These include Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso, Cedric Brooks, Ernest Ranglin and the Brentford All-Stars. You will find straight up funk bombs such as Lennie Hibbert's mind-blowing 'Go For Yourself' (sounding like The Meters meets James Brown!), the Brentford All-Stars covering War's classic 'The World is a Ghetto', and Jackie Mittoo showing how to make Cream's 'Sunshine of Your Love' into a reggae funk bomb! All of these sit beside super-deep roots and dub cuts that exemplify together how Studio One was unique in Clement Dodd's pioneering vision of reggae, the music created functioning with a continuous level of experimentation that blurred the lines between genres and pushed the outer limits of reggae music at all times. This album is deep!The album comes with extensive sleevenotes by Steve Barker (Wire magazine) and comes as a CD encased in slipcase.1. Hortense and The Sound Dimension - People Make the World Go Round Version (2.58)2. Leroy Wallace and The New Establishment - Far Beyond Version (3.36)3. Sound Di

Soul Jazz Records Presents (ArSoul Jazz Records' long out of print classic 'Studio One Funk' collection is being re-released in a new one-off limited-edition coloured pressing 18th anniversary edition! A new special limited-edition one-off red-pressed CD enclosed in jewel case and slipcase. 18 years on from it's original Studio One Funk remains one of our Studio One releases most in-demand titles and like all our earlier special coloured editions is sure to sell out fast! // Studio One Funk is made up of rare and unreleased Reggae Funk from the vaults of Studio One. Ever since the birth of Funk in America, the sound has been an ever-present ingredient in the melting pot of Studio One's musical output. // The music on this is a combination of originals, US covers and versions of existing Studio One cuts, one of the finest selections of reggae and funk you will ever hear. Album Tracks 1. Cedric Im Brooks - Shaft 2. Alton Ellis - African Descendants 3. Pablove Black - Poco Tempo 4. Lloyd Williams - Reggae Feet 5. Jackie Mittoo - Hang 'Em High 6. Cedric Im Brooks - Idleberg 7. Prince Francis - Beat Down Babylon 8. Lee Arab - Now 9. Soul Bros - 007 10. Prince Moonie - See a Man's Face 11. Im and Sound Dimension - Love Jah 12. Leroy Sibbles - Do Your Thing 13. The Sharks - Music Answer 14. Underground Vegetables - Melting Pot 15. Devon Russell - You Found Heaven 16. Vin Gordon - Steady Beat 17. Alton Ellis - It's a Shame 18. Roy Richards - Another Day 19. Delroy Wilson - Funky Broadway