Coxsone's Music Photo: Soul Jazz Records
Studio One founder and pioneering kingpin of Jamaican music, Clement ‘Coxsone’ Dodd, has had a profound effect on popular music over the past fifty years. His recordings with the Skatalites, Bob Marley, Burning Spear and Horace Andy were instrumental in the birth of ska, reggae and dancehall.
Before the development of these quintessentially Jamaican styles, Coxsone ran a franchise of soundsystems with his Mum, Doris Darlington, and recorded local versions of jump blues with musicians found at a local school ‘for wayward boys’.
Emma Smith talks with Soul Jazz Records founder Stuart Baker about these fascinating formative recordings, collected for the first time in the new compilation Coxsone’s Music.
Music Details
Artist: Sound Dimension
Song: Real Rock
Composer: Dodd
Album: Real Rock
Label: Studio One
Artist: Don Drummond
Song: Roll On Sweet Don
Composer: Drummond
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Smiley Lewis
Song: Shame Shame Shame
Composer: Lewis
Album: Shame Shame Shame
Label: Imperial
Artist: Workshop Musicians
Song: Calypso Jazz
Composer: Traditional
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Roland Alphonso
Song: Counter Punch
Composer: Fuller/ Brown
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Fats Domino
Song: Blueberry Hill
Composer: Lewis/Stock/Rose
Album: Blueberry Hill
Label: Imperial
Artist: Don Drummond and the City Slickers
Song: That Man Is Back
Composer: Drummond
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Owen Grey
Song: Best Twist
Composer: Grey
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: The Blues Busters
Song: You Had It All Wrong
Composer: Scorcher
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
Artist: Derrick Harriot
Song: Answer Me
Composer: Harriot
Album: Coxsone's Music
Label: Soul Jazz
