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Studio One Roots (CD)

Studio One Roots (CD)

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Soul Jazz Records celebrate 25 years of working in partnership with Studio One with brand new editions of FIVE of their best-selling CLASSIC Studio One collections all released on limited-edition one-off pressing coloured double vinyl. Also available in new limited-edition card wallet CD editions.

The new edition featured albums are Studio One Funk, Studio One Dub, Studio One Ska, Studio One Roots and Studio One Classics

TRACKLIST 

1. The Cyclones With Count Ossie – Meditation 
2. Cornell Campbell & The Brentford Rockers – Natty Don't Go 
3. Freddy Mcgregor With The Sound Dimension – Africa Here I Come 
4. Bunny & Skitter – Lumumbo 
5. Willie Williams & The All Stars – Addis A Bab a 
6. L.Crosdale With Drummond Bago & the Rebel e Free 
7. Leroy Wallace & The New Establishment – Far Beyond 
8. Le  More Creation 
9. Alton Ellis & The Sound Dimension – Blackish White 
10. Winston Jarrett & The Sound Dimension – Fear Not 
11. Devon Russell – Drum Song 
12. The Gaylads – Africa 
13. Black Brothers & The New Establishment – School Children 
14. Linton Cooper & The Brentford Disco Set – You'll Get Your Pay 
15. Sound Dimension – Congo Rock 

16. Zoot Simms – African Challenge


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tudio One Roots set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series and features many of the classic artists from Clement 'Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae.

This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining in-house groups of Jamaican reggae history - The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. The album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road.

Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s ‘Blackish White’, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie’s Rastafarian drummers’ genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of the Skatalites' seminal Rastafari anthem ‘Addis Ababa’ and many, many more.

Original sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of When Reggae Was King), compiled by Mark Ainley (Honest Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.

REVIEWS:

"Having established himself as one of Jamaica's top producers the day Studio One opened its doors in the early '60s, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd was unable to maintain his status during the roots era of the subsequent decade. This can be attributed to a couple of factors. One was Dodd's apparent reluctance to record the new, overtly Rasta-inspired music. The other was an infusion of new blood into the Jamaican music business. Eager to make a name for themselves, producers like Joe Gibbs, Bunny Lee, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and Winston "Niney" Holness managed to supplant the island's "big three" (Dodd, Duke Reid, and Prince Buster) in the process, driving the music's evolution in the '70s.

There isn't a weak number across these 16 tracks, from the Gaylads' ode to "Africa" and Devon Russell's version of the heavyweight "Drum Song" rhythm, to a trio of stunning instrumentals: Jackie Mittoo and the Cyclones with nyahbinghi drummer Count Ossie on "Meditation," Lenny Hibbert's sparkling vibe work over Mittoo's "Ghetto Organ" ("More Creation"), and Sound Dimension's "Congo Rock." Pitchfork

The music of this compilation is of a rare, rare beauty and is essential to anyone's reggae collection." All Music

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Genre: REGGAE / SKA / DUB
Format: 1 CD
Label: SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
Release date: 2020
Reissue date: 2026

TRACKLIST 

Side One

The Cyclones with Count Ossie – Meditation

Cornell Campbell – Natty Don't Go

Freddie McGregor – Africa Here I Come

Bunnie & Skitter – Lumumbo


Side Two

Willie Williams – Addis A Baba

L Crosdale – Set Me Free

Leroy Wallace – Far Beyond

Lennie Hibbert – More Creation


Side Three

Alton Ellis – Blackish White

Winston Jarrett – Fear Not

Devon Russell – Drum Song

The Gaylads – Africa


Side Four

Black Brothers – School Children

Linton Cooper – You'll Get Your Pay

Sound Dimension – Congo Rock

Zoot Simms – African Challenge


DESCRIPTION

This is the new 20th anniversary edition of one of Soul Jazz Records’ classic Studio One releases, now available as a one-off special blue vinyl very limited-edition pressing (2000 copies worldwide). 




Studio One Roots set the standard for Soul Jazz Records’ long-standing series of Studio One collections and features many of the classic artists from Clement 'Sir Coxsone’ Dodd’s mighty roster of reggae. This album includes Freddie McGregor, Willie Williams, Cornell Campbell, Alton Ellis, Devon Russell alongside some of the defining crack-session men groups of Jamaican reggae history – The Sound Dimension, Brentford All-Stars, The Skatalites, New Establishment and more. As ever the album is filled with a mixture of seminal cuts and super-rarities from the vast vaults of 13 Brentford Road. 
Stand-out tracks include Alton Ellis’s Blackish White, a surreal and powerful Afro-centric dream, Count Ossie Nyabinghi and Rastafarian drummers genre-defying interpretation of Booker T and The MGs ‘Meditation’, Willie Williams awe-inspiring versioning of the Skatalites seminal Rastafari anthem Addis Ababa and many, many more.


This album has been fully digitally remastered, analog cut and packaged complete with the following: Original sleevenotes by Lloyd Bradley (author of When Reggae Was King), compiled by Mark Ainley (Hones Jons), high-quality Soul Jazz mastering, wicked images of Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari on the cover, and a rare image of Clement Dodd and musicians inside the studio at Studio One on the full colour inner sleeves.



“The music of this compilation is of a rare, rare beauty and is essential to anyone's reggae collection”   All Music