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Coxsone's Music (The First Recordings Of Sir Coxsone The Downbeat 1960-62)
Coxsone’s Music is a stunning new 3-CD/two separate double LP (+ free download) collection featuring over two and half hours of early Jamaican proto-ska, rhythm and blues, jazz, rastafari and gospel music – charting the earliest recordings produced by Clement Dodd, in the years before he launched the mighty Studio One Records, brought together here for the first time ever. Clement Dodd’s Sir Coxsone The Downbeat Soundsystem ruled Kingston’s dancehalls during this era and these recordings strongly reflect the influences of American rhythm and blues and jump jazz on Jamaican music fans. By the time the new record company formed in Brentford Road, Kingston in 1963, the young Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already managed to release an incredible wealth of recordings by the talented musicians and artists on the island of Jamaica and this collection reflects just that:
Featuring Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Derrick Harriott, Owen Gray, Clancy Eccles, Count Ossie, Monty Alexander, The Blues Busters, Ernest Ranglin, Rico Rodriguez and many, many more all captured here in their formative early years.
Before Studio One, Clement Dodd released this music on a variety of his early record labels such as Worldisc, All Stars, Coxsone, D Darling (named after Coxsone’s mother, who received a production credit on the label), Muzik City (named after Dodd’s record store on East Queen’s Street), Port O Jam, Supreme and Sensational. Sleevenotes to this collection are by Studio One authority Rob Chapman, author of the Never Grow Old and Downbeat Special books cataloguing the many recordings of the label.
A1
The Blues Busters - You Had It All Wrong
2:29
A2
Clue J And His Blues Blasters - Salt Lane Shuffle
3:11
A3
Lascelles Perkins - Real Gone Clown
2:58
A4
Don Drummond - Reload
2:42
A5
Clancy Eccles - Freedom
2:50
B1
Clue J And His Blues Blasters - Pine Juice
3:09
B2
The Jiving Juniors - Over The River
2:04
B3
Don Drummond - Schooling The Duke
2:46
B4
The Mellow Cats - Rock A Man Soul
2:44
B5
Monty - Summertime
2:37
B6
The Mellowlarks - No More Wedding
3:00
C1
Roland Alphonso - Just Cool
2:17
C2
Owen & Millie - Sugar Plum
2:22
C3
Clue J And His Blues Blasters - Silky
2:45
C4
Basil Gabbidon - Independent Blues
2:46
C5
Don Drummond - That Man Is Back
1:52
C6
Simms & Robinson - Searching
2:24
D1
The Shinners - Romantic Shuffle
2:05
D2
Cecil Lloyd Quintet - Grooving With The Beat
4:48
D3
Neville Esson - I Do
2:13
D4
Workshop Musicians - Burnie's Tune
4:19
D5
Owen & Millie - Sit And Cry
2:07