jackie mittoo was a keyboard player, composer, arranger & producer at coxsone dodd's jamaican record manufacturing co. aka Studio One. he led or was a member of a succession of studio groups (soul vendors, sound dimension, invaders, brentford all stars, new establishment) and backed bob marley and the wailers, heptones, delroy wilson & alton ellis among others.it is aknowledged that most of the...
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If you grew up listening to Am radio in the 70's like I did, you are intimately familiar with Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts..I mean stations played that record once an hour for almost all of 1972. The pleasant enough tune has been permanently lodged in my brain since.Clearly I'm not the only one..3 covers here from Reggae Organ king Jackie Mittoo, the family funk of the Isley Bros., and the s...
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For you veiwing pleasure I am not going to spell check. WHOOOO let's get down tonight, pulling out all the stops. Weird thing is I actually made chicken tonight. Chicken and garlic bread that had so much fresh garlic on it that it made Lindsays mouth burn. I love the 'stinking rose'. We I'm cooking I tend to be a spice freak. That and I like to try new recipes. You could say I'm adventurous and...
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and the frankly incredible full length mix of "Clean Up the Arena", an instrumental cut of Johnny Clarke's March 1978 dancehall killer "Peace Ina Western Kingston", produced by Edward "Bunny" Lee, backed by the Aggrovators aka the Soul Syndicate, and featuring the duelling keyboards of Jackie Mittoo (Clavinet) and Winston Wright (organ), mixed by King Tubbys. About three minutes in, this gets r...
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Unquestionably the finest keyboard player in Jamaican history, Jackie Mittoo (1948-1990) was taught piano by his grandmother when he was four, and was already playing professionally at thirteen. By age fifteen, he was one of the studio arrangers at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One, where he played on literally hundreds of unforgettable tracks. His legacy is incalculable.One of his greatest ever was "P...
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jackie mittoo was a keyboard player, composer, arranger & producer at coxsone dodd's jamaican record manufacturing co. aka Studio One. he led or was a member of a succession of studio groups (soul vendors, sound dimension, invaders, brentford all stars, new establishment) and backed bob marley and the wailers, heptones, delroy wilson & alton ellis among others.it is aknowledged that most of the...
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| 2 Henry the Great |
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| 3 P. Cafe |
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| 4 Juice Box |
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| 5 Lazy Bones |
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