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"skazz" and the Jazz Jamaica All-Stars - jazzboCR - 13-12-2014
This London outfit really is an all-star group. Been making a hybridized music (a melding of Jamaican styles with jazz called skazz) for nearly 25 years, expanded to a big band in '99 and keeps getting better. Here's the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jamaica << The leader comes by it honestly--he's a nephew of Jamaican music monster, Ernest Ranglin. His and their Site: http://garycrosbybass.com/jazzjamaica/ On their 4 albums in 20 years, they've played tunes from Wayne Shorter/Herbie Hancock all the way to a Motown CD.
Some tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnyqoJH-mk << from the fledgling release, before they expanded the roster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ2-U7VB2qY << From an album not released in the West (they were on a major Japanese label)--the Usual Suspect doesn't even have it and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFiTmXCf_88 << from Vol.2 of this mystery series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKUaHYkJsRs << They freakin' kill on this Herbie Hancock classic--what introduced me to them
And now fore some pure fun stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpg7YKFHZw
3 cuts from a concert 8 years ago--more pop than jazz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcgAewQyuPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ZYUyc2nnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8DFQq6-aos
BONUS: Full concert a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_OZyHrb2D0