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After
disbanded in the mid-'60s, Jamaican producer
brought in several of the group's members as the house band for his
facility, teaming them with some of the younger musicians he had discovered.
, as the in-house group was initially called, were led by keyboardist, arranger, and
master
and the equally as talented tenor sax player
. Officially, this configuration recorded for
between 1965 and 1967, churning out hundreds of the now-trademark
-styled rhythms that
would use as backing tracks for his singing artists. Often, though,
,
, and company got to cut loose and create their own instrumentals over the rhythms, and several of these delightful sides are collected here. Recorded just as
was giving way to the deeper, slower rhythms of
, tracks like the skipping and rolling
(which isn't really
at all, although it shows up repeatedly on
collections in
' vocal version), the push and pull feel of
the ragged yet sure
and the infectiously bubbly
are closer to being a kind of unique Jamaican version of
than anything else (compare the one vocal track here,
to
's version of
to hear how close to American
this stuff really is). Whatever the label, it's all pure fun, and durable, as these incredible rhythms continue to be versioned well into the 21st century. ~ Steve Leggett