 | Blazing Horns/Tenor in Roots by Tommy McCook
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.90 Nice Blood & Fire release! Two '70s lps with the best Jamaican musicans, all mixed by King Tubby and Prince Jammy, including some extended dub mixes. Now back to the beginning...
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 | Foundation Ska by The Skatalites
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $12.18 Tenor Saxophonist and flutist Tommy McCook was the leader of The Skatalites, the original and best ska band of all time. This great double set from Heartbeat has 32 of their original '60s recordings.
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 | Guns of Navarone: The Best of the Skatalites by The Skatalites
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $49.30 A single disc collection from Trojan of some excellent original Skatalites recordings. Nicely compliments the double set above.
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 | Phoenix City: A History of the World's Greatest Ska by The Skatalites & Friends
Buy used from: $17.98 OR you could do even better and get this Trojan double set instead of the single one. This one has all of the music from the single disc, plus a whole mess of other great stuff.
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 | Tribute To Tommy: The Best Of Tommy McCook And The Skatalites by Tommy McCook & The Skatalites
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $6.85 MORE Skatalites from Heartbeat, and the audio quality is amazing here...sounds like it was recorded yesterday...as a bonus Tommy is featured on some really nice straight-up jazz tracks at the end.
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 | Top Secret by Tommy McCook & the Super Sonic
Buy used from: $15.99 Tommy goes from leading the greatest ska band to leading the (arguably) greatest rocksteady band. Rocksteady slowed the rhythm and brought Jamaica one step closer to reggae. Some of these rhythms are as much reggae as rocksteady. Good audio quality.
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 | Real Cool: The Jamaican King of the Saxophone '66-'77 by Tommy McCook
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $16.01 A sweet double-set of Tommy's solo work post-Skatalites through 1977. We hear Tommy in a wide variety of settings, from ska, to rocksteady, to jazz, reggea, latin, funk, dub, soul and more.
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 | Down on Bond Street by Tommy McCook & the Supersonics
Buy used from: $32.99 A Tommy McCook LP with more breezy rocksteady grooves. Also look for Tommy's LP with trumpeter Bobby Ellis, "Green Mango."
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 | Studio One Scorcher (Instrumentals) by Various Artists
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $30.26 Super-fine collection of Studio One Scorchers from Soul Jazz...just real good funky stuff...second only to the Heartbeat release below...
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 | Downbeat the Ruler: Killer Instrumentals from Studio One by Various Artists
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.95 Unbeatable Studio One instrumental collection by which all others shall be judged. Just get this one, please; I can't even tell you how skanky, funky, groovy, jazzy, and amazing it is.
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 | Dub-Triptych by Lee Perry & The Upsetters
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $10.63 Tommy plays on several tracks here (even some piano), and they are among his very best. Good thing, because you need these classic Upsetter dubs and instrumentals anyway.
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 | Aggrovators Meets the Revolutionaries at Channel One by Aggrovators
The horns of Tommy, Roland Alphonso, Lester Sterling, and Bobby Ellis. Tuff ensemble horn lines with light dub effects. Tommy is in both groups
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 | Legendary Skatalites in Dub by The Skatalites
Buy used from: $87.99 1976 Skatalites reunion with a difference. King Tubby mixes thick, funky grooves with roiling Niyabinghi drums recorded at the Black Ark. Unique and essential.
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 | African Roots by Lloyd Brevett
Buy used from: $2.32 Bassist of the Skatalites gets some help from his old comrades on this deep, funky, 70s recording. Some of the undubbed originals from "Skatalites In Dub" are here too.
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 | Jesus Dread (1972-1977) by Yabby You
Buy used from: $68.99 Two discs of staggering brilliance, and several tracks featuring Tommy McCook. Look for Yabby & Tommy on "King Tubby's Prophesy Of Dub," also on the great Blood & Fire label.
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 | Want Some Freedom by African Brothers
Buy used from: $54.75 High caliber roots reggae from 1970-'76! Tommy and friends get rootsical, and also stick around for a few dubs...always a plus. Well worth checking out.
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 | Termination Dub by Glen Brown
Buy used from: $16.48 Blazing Glen Brown-produced tracks mixed by Tubby from `73-'79. Lots of echoing horn here, with Tommy, Vin Gordon, Bobby Ellis, and Dirty Harry. Yes, this really is essential.
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 | From the Archives by Tapper Zukie
Buy used from: $3.84 Smooth, laid-back rythmic toasting over classic tracks with tight ensemble horn riffs and tasty dubby beats.
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 | Well Charged by Revolutionaries
Buy used from: $21.98 Very good instrumental dub, heavy on the horns. Skanky grooves a-broiling, beats a-echoing, brass launched into space. Probably the Revolutionaries' most popular dub release.
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 | Right Time by The Mighty Diamonds
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.24 Classic roots harmony. This is also the source material for the "Well Charged" dubs mentioned above.
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 | Goldmine Dub by Revolutionaries
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $7.98 Nice Revolutionaries dub album from 1979, mixed by Prince Jammy at King Tubby's.
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 | UMOJA/20th Century DEBwise by Dennis Brown Presents Prince Jammy
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.50 Excellent collection of prime Jammy dubs. Deep bass, mind expanding textures, grooving rhythms and ghostly horns. Another direct hit from Blood & Fire.
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 | Earthquake Dub by Ossie Hibbert & The Revolutionaries
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.85 Swell 1978 dub album; crisp, spacy textures, heavy bass and great horn/flute lines from Tommy McCook. Very fine.
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 | Dubbing It Studio One Style by The Aggrovators
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $21.00 Just a lot of tasty dubs in which the echoing horn lines take top billing.
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 | Ball of Fire by The Skatalites
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.15 Triumphant return to the studio. Tight, uptempo jams on ska classics, with tasty, jazzy solos that always serve the greater good. Nice stuff!
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 | Stretching Out by The Skatalites
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $7.00 1986 double set from the reunited Skatalites, stretching out the ska jams with some extensive solos. Some studio, some live.
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