Coxsone’s Music – The First Recordings Of Sir Coxsone The Downbeat 1960-63 Vol. 1

Various Artists / Soul Jazz Records Presents

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‘Coxsone’s Music’ is a stunning new 3-CD / two separate double LP (+ free download) collection featuring over two and half hours of early Jamaican proto-Ska, Rhythm and Blues, Jazz, Rastafari and Gospel music – charting the earliest recordings produced by Clement Dodd, in the years before he launched the mighty Studio One Records, brought together here for the first time ever.

Clement Dodd’s Sir Coxsone The Downbeat Soundsystem ruled Kingston’s dancehalls during this era and these recordings strongly reflect the influences of American rhythm and blues and jump jazz on Jamaican music fans. · By the time the new record company formed in Brentford Road, Kingston in 1963, the young Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd had already managed to release an incredible wealth of recordings by the talented musicians and artists on the island of Jamaica and this collection reflects just that:

Featuring Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Derrick Harriott, Owen Gray, Clancy Eccles, Count Ossie, Monty Alexander, The Blues Busters, Ernest Ranglin, Rico Rodriguez and many, many more all captured here in their formative early years.

Before Studio One, Clement Dodd released this music on a variety of his early record labels such as Worldisc, All Stars, Coxsone, D Darling (named after Coxsone’s mother, who received a production credit on the label), Muzik City (named after Dodd’s record store on East Queen’s Street), Port O Jam, Supreme and Sensational.

Sleevenotes to this collection are by Studio One authority Rob Chapman, author of the Never Grow Old and Downbeat Special books cataloguing the many recordings of the label.

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Track Listings

Don Drummond – Roll On Sweet Don
Derrick Harriott – Answer Me
Aubrey Adams & His Dudroppers – Do Du Wap
Busty & Cool – What A World
Roland Alphonso – Counter Punch
Owen & Millie – Do You Know
Workshop Musicians – Calypso Jazz
Don Drummond – Elevation Rock
The Blues Busters – There’s Always Sunshine
Clue J And His Blues Blasters – Unknown Shuffle
Blues
The Jiving Juniors – Darling Don’t Leave Me
The Mellow Larks – Time To Pray (Allelujah)
Owen Gray – Twisting My Baby
Cecil Lloyd Quintet – What Is The Thing Called Love
Theo Beckford – That’s Me
Simms & Robinson – White Christmas
Cecil Lloyd Quintet – Sometimes I Am Happy
Owen Gray – Best Twist
The Blues Busters – Tell Me Why
Don Drummond – Dew Drops
Clancy Eccles – River Jordan
Workshop Musicians – Serenade in Sound
Owen Gray – Young Lover
City Slickers – Oceans 11
The Blues Busters – You Had It All Wrong
Clue J & His Blues Blasters – Salt Lane Shuffle
Lascelles Perkins – Real Gone Clown
Don Drummond – Reload
Clancy Eccles – Freedom
Clue J And His Blues Blasters – Pine Juice
The Jiving Juniors – Over the River
Don Drummond – Schooling The Duke
The Mellow Cats, Count Ossie And The Warrickas –
Rock A Man Soul
Monty & The Cyclones – Summertime
The Mellowlarks – No More Wedding
Roland Alphonso & Carol McLaughlin – Just Cool
Owen & Millie – Sugar Plum
Clue J & His Blues Blasters – Silky
Basil Gabbidon – Independence Blues
Don Drummond And The City Slickers – That Man Is Back
Simms & Robinson – Searching
The Shinners – Romantic Shuffle
Cecil Lloyd Quintet – Grooving With the Beat
Neville Esson – I Do
Workshop Musicians – Burnie’s Tune
Owen & Millie – Sit and Cry

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