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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is widely known as "Sidewalk Doctor", following the massive success of Jackie Mittoo's tune of that name: this is the 10" extended mix, with a dub added on
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First of all, a blisterring ska stomper he wrote and arranged in 1966, aged 18. The sax solo on this is by the very underrated Lester Sterling
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"Message from a Black Man" was released as a single or LP track in the USA by The Temptations, the Whatnauts and the (Detroit) Spinners. In Jamaica it was a huge success for the Heptones at Studio One, was covered by Derrick Harriott, released as a deejay version by Sir Harry ("Sound Number 1"), as a dub called "Message From A Dub", and as a sax and trumpet instrumental by Im Brooks and David M...
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in my little Scottish village. I shan't tell you the result, but instead shall play you a wee tune
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From the sound of it, this is a late sixties Studio One cut, with Eric Frater on rhythm guitar, beginning with "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen", then seguing into "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town", which seems rather at odds with the rather haunting, almost melancholic tone of the recording
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Jackie Mittoo was born on March 3, 1948 in Brown's Town, in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica. He was taught piano by his grandmother who was a music teacher, from the age of four and played classical music at an early age. He first performed in public before he was ten, around this time he was playing rags a Jamaican form similar to boogie-woogie and reproducing the American R'n'B he was hearing ...
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