Funky Friday (technically a couple of hours early...)
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Artist:Lennie Hibbert
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Album:Creation
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Track:Soul Shack
Lennie Hibbert is one of Jamaica's lesser remembered instrumentalists. An alumnus of the famous Alpha Boys Catholic School, where he was educated , andwhere he was leader of the school band from 1955-63, where he followed in the footsteps of Reuben Delgado, and where his pupils included Vincent "Trommie" Gordon and Cedric "Im" Brooks, both of whom were noted for their jazz stylings. He cut a few tunes for Linden and Sonia Pottinger's Gay Feet in 1968, but his limited fame outside Jamaica (he holds the island's Order of Distinction) comes from his two early seventies Studio One LPs, "Creation" and its imaginatively titled successor "More Creation", the former of which was largely a collaboration with Jackie Mittoo. Very few of his tracks are now widely available.
First up tonight is "Soul Shack".
Comments (2)
He cut two wholly different versions of "Twilight Zone". This is the alternate cut, not on the original albumen, with a sax player added who is absent from the first released cut. I'm pretty sure this is a jazz cover, but I can't recall the name of the original tune.
I enjoy these. They (especially "Twilight Zone) remind me a little of a Cal Tjader album my dad had from around 1960. This is the first Jamaican salsa recording I've heard.