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Phoenix City: A History of the World's Greatest Ska Band
(CD, 2004)
Primary Artist: Skatalites (The)
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Format: CD
May 2004
2 Discs
Record Label: Trojan
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 060768045323 |
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Details
Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Let George Do It - (with Duke Reid's Group)
2. Yard Broom - (with Roland Alphonso & Don Drummond)
3. Back Beat - (with Roland Alphonso)
4. Strolling In - (with The Duke Reid Band)
5. Sailing On - (with Roland Alphonso & Don Drummond)
6. Apanga - (with Tommy McCook)
7. One More Time - (with Lloyd Brevet)
8. J.F.K.'s Memory - (with Don Drummond & Tommy McCook)
9. Musical Communion (Sly Mongoose) - (with Baba Brooks & Tommy McCook)
10. Spider - (with Don Drummond & Baba Brooks)
11. Fly Right, (Straighten up and) - (with Roland Alphonso/Baba Brooks)
12. Spitfire - (with Don Drummond)
13. Dreadnaught - (with Baba Brooks & Roland Alphonso)
14. Boat Ride - (with Baba Brooks & The Skatalites)
15. Eastern Standard Time - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
16. Feeling Fine - (with Roland Alphonso)
17. Musical Storeroom - (with Frank Anderson/Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
18. Green Island - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
19. Twelve Minutes to Go - (with Tommy McCook & The Skatalites)
20. Garden of Love - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
21. Sandy Gulley - (with Roland Alphonso)
22. Corner Stone (A.K.A. a Trip to Mars) - (with Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites)
23. Cool Smoke - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
24. Silver Dollar - (with Roland Alphonso & Don Drummond)
25. Good News
26. Street Corner
27. Melody Jamboree - (with Don Drummond & Baba Brooks)
DISC 2:
1. Occupation, (Music Is My) - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
2. Cotton Tree (A.K.A. Knockout Punch) - (with Tommy McCook & The Skatalites)
3. Doctor Dekker - (with Don Drummond & The Baba Brooks Band)
4. Around the World - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
5. Latin Goes Ska - (with Lester Sterling & The Skatalites)
6. Don de Lion - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
7. Alipang (A.K.A. Alley Pang A.K.A. Apanga) - (with Roland Alphonso & Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
8. Thoroughfare (A.K.A. Treasure Isle) - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
9. Guns of Navarone - (with Roland Alphonso & The Skatalites)
10. Dragon Weapon
11. Mesopotamia - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
12. Burning Touch - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
13. Stampede - (with Don Drummond & Baba Brooks & The Skatalites)
14. Man in the Street - (with Don Drummond & The Skatalites)
15. Duck Soup - (with Cuttings/Baba Brooks & His Band)
16. Independence Ska - (with Lyn Taitt & The Baba Brooks Band)
17. Guns Fever - (with The Baba Brooks Band)
18. Girl's Town Ska - (with The Baba Brooks Band)
19. Nuclear Weapon - (with Roland Alphonso & The Baba Brooks Band)
20. University Goes Ska - (with Don Drummond)
21. Vitamin A - (with The Baba Brooks Band)
22. Teenage Ska - (with The Baba Brooks Band)
23. Lucky Seven - (with Don Drummond & Baba Brooks)
24. James Bond - (with Roland Alphonso & The Soul Brothers)
25. Special Event - (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics)
26. Alley Cat Ska - (with Tommy McCook & The Supersonics)
27. Phoenix City - (with Roland Alphyonso & The Soul Brothers)
| Details | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Although PHOENIX CITY bills itself as "a history of the world's greatest ska band," the Skatalites' discography is so vast that there's only room on this expansive double CD for the best of their sides for producer Duke Reid, plus a few Studio One cuts. But, as that amounts to 54 smoking instrumentals, varying from explosive dance tracks "Guns of Navarone" and "Phoenix City" to dreamy island tune "Melody Jamboree," satisfaction can be unconditionally guaranteed.
The first half-dozen tracks here are solid evidence of this seminal outfit's roots in American jazz and R&B, but they hit their stride with a vengeance on the loping, relaxed rhythm of "J.F.K.'s Memory" and the gorgeous orchestrations of Don Drummond's "Spider." It's hard to believe that the Skatalites' prolific recorded output spans only the years 1964-'65, and equally hard to equate this carefree music with the tragic circumstances in which the band split up, following main composer and trombonist Drummond's mental breakdown and imprisonment for murder. PHOENIX CITY is a testament to the Skatalites' musical creativity--a dazzling collection of effortless instrumental virtuosity bonded to an unerringly single-minded sense of rhythm.
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