SUTC: Black Uhuru performed in an acoustic jazz stylee
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Saxophonist Dean Fraser's remarkable jazz/reggae set "Big Up" has been featured here before. On this track, he takes on the late seventies dancehall killer "Shine Eye Gal", with upright bass, piano and two stellar drummers. Your left ear should be closer to Sly Dunbar, while your right is favoured with the drums of Lou Donaldson's funky sideman (and all round jazz-funk veteran, with a fair number of sessions as leader under his belt) Idris Muhammad.
This track was recorded in December 1996; it appears that most of the tracks on the album were laid down in a single take.
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This is sooo sweet...
This reminds me of recent Ernest Ranglin albums in taking reggae into wonderful new atmospheres. Beautiful playing.
The only common player between this album and Ernest Ranglin's "Below the Bassline", recorded round about the same time, is drummer Idris Muhammad, so the pool of Jamaican jazz musicians is obviously fairly deep.