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Some people may have noticed that I have a strong background in reggae, This thread is dedicated to connections between the two musical styles.
I'll start with something jazz guitar that was hidden for decades in a far-away corner of my memory and just has returned.
In 1997 Charlie Hunter recorded a jazz album containing instrumental versions of all songs on Bob Marley's Natty Dread album. I still do not know how to link a playlist so if you want to hear the full album you have to search for it on YouTube or elsewhere.
Here you can compare Marley's versions of Lively Up Yourself and No Woman No Cry with Hunter's versions.
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10-11-2024 01:25 AM
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Carlos Santana jamming two Bob Marley tunes with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Chick Korea, Ravi Coltrane, John McLaughlin and Angelique Kidjo.
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Scofield, Medeski, Martin, Wood: Legalize it
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Originally Posted by docsteve
Please for cover versions also post a version of the original.
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Ernest Ranglin!! The one and only, the best! Ska, Reggae, Jazz, authentic, original, and inimitable.
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Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
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This is my fav the album that Gary Crosby uk Jazz musician got his band name from. Not really reggae but it features all the well known early Jamaican musicians that were prominent in the emerging Ska scene at the time. Its full of standards and has a lovely feel to it.
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Kingston born Monty Alexander playing Augustus Pablo on a Hohner melodica
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Jazz and Reggae (specifically Dub) are my 2 favorite kinds of music, so this thread is really hitting the spot!
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Originally Posted by Heybopper
Many Jamaican musicians received their musical tuition at the Alpha Boys' School that apparently still exists in a different form.
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Take five and make it four
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So up-to-date ...
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If you continue to burn up the herbs
We gonna burn down the cane fields
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But the jazz, rude bwoy?
Of course reggae musicians were not sleeping on what's going on in the rest of the musical world, Bob Marley loved Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Wonder and the song One Love is actually called One Love/People Get Ready because it was an adaption of Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready, written when Curtis was still in The Impressions.
And there is sometimes even a strong fusion jazz influence like in the bridge of this song.
"BABYLON IS FALLING
It was foolish to build It on the sand"
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Is the Grateful Dead's music jazz? Harmony can be complex. A lot of the music is pure improvisation. They play odd meters. Garcia even credited listening to big band jazz horn arrangements for informing his comping.
I'm aware that jazz purists can point to differences and probably reject the Dead as a jazz band, but I see commonality.
Which brings me to Bob Marley. The early reggae bands didn't have a lot of soloing. Marley himself was quoted as saying that was because "we didn't have anybody who could play it" or words to that effect. But, bands like Third World were, arguably, more sophisticated instrumentalists, including some jazz influences.
I have to remind myself that arguments about what to include in a category that has no accepted definition, tend to be endless.
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When you watch a producer of dub reggae (the mother of remixes) make something new out of a multi-track recording, for me it also has similarities with jazz. It takes a good knowledge of the form to un-mute a particular vocal line in a largely instrumental version. You need a good sense of rhythm to send a certain snare beat into the reverb or echo, etc.
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Jamaicans love to do cover versions
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Monty Alexander plays Bob Marley
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