Studio One Groups: Soul Jazz Presents
Studio One Groups: Soul Jazz Presents
Customer Review: One of the best Studio One compilations ever…….
Coming hot on the heels of Soul Jazz’s well conceived “Studio One Rude Boy” compilation comes this truly outstanding CD which is in my opinion sits within the top three of the Studio One albums issued by Soul Jazz since 2001 (the other two? “S.1.Roots” & “S.1.Scorcher”). This is particularly satisfying after an impression of the law of diminishing returns with some of Soul Jazz’s efforts over the last few years where 2 to 4 great tracks were interspersed with an awful lot of filler (prime culprits: “S.1.Funk”, “S.1.Disco Mix” & “S.1.Scorcher Vol.2″ all of which came up short). This one though is definitely all killer and no filler with about 8 or 9 all time classics and the rest are uniformly excellent. Of particular note is the first CD release of “Happy Land” by Carlton & The Shoes that will have the reggae cognoscenti rushing to the shops as it is the prototype of the Abyssinians “Satta Massagana”, one of the 1st and still the ultimate roots track. It is fascinating to hear this track as the verses echo “Satta” very closely but the music is late rocksteady instead of early reggae roots, but after that initial shock dissipates it quickly becomes apparent that it is a great song whatever the merits of its progeny. Also of note is that finally Soul Jazz has released two top drawer efforts from “The Wailing Souls” and “The Gladiators”, two legendary 70’s groups that released alot of prime material at Studio One and were previously only represented by sub-par efforts on earlier Soul Jazz S.1 compilations, a wrong that has finally been righted. Other classic tracks involve the usual suspects; “Bassies”, “Cables”, “Heptones”, “Wailers”, “Royals” and “Maytals” but it is good to have them so well compiled in one place in outstanding sound quality. In conclusion, this one’s for the ages and I only hope Soul Jazz keep up this renewed winning streak with their access to the incomparable Studio One catalogue; the richest in reggae and arguably all popular music over the past 40 years.
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