VINYL JUMP BLUES JAMAICA WAY - JAMAICAN SOUND [VINYL]

Popis - JUMP BLUES JAMAICA WAY - JAMAICAN SOUND [VINYL]:
'JAMAICAN SOUND SYSTEM CLASSICS 1945-1960' - This cool double-LP comp. follows up the volumes 'Jumping The Shuffle Blues' and 'Jamaica Selects Jump Blues Strictly For You'. Included are 28 US jump/shuffle blues recordings, which will be of equal interest to both Jamaican music fans and connoisseurs of classic US rhythm & blues. Before the development of its own recording industry, Jamaican music fans predominantly found musical fulfilment in the raw shuffle blues music that emanated from mainland USA. This no-nonsense style of R&B dominated the island's sound system dances from the dawn of the '50s, with operators aggressively competing with each other for exclusive discs, many of which were later covered by some of Jamaica's biggest names. In the tradition of the previous releases in this series, compiler and annotator Phil Etgart has selected only recordings that are known to have been played on the original Jamaican sound systems of the 1940s and 1950s. Featured artists include LOUIS JORDAN, ILLINOIS JACQUET, THE
ROBINS, JOE LIGGINS, PERCY MAYFIELD, BOBBY SMITH, CLARENCE
GATEMOUTH BROWN, SHERMAN WILLIAMS, JOHNNY ACE, THE PENGUINS,
CHUCK HIGGINS, THE MERRI-MEN, SMILEY LEWIS, THE HOWARDS, a.m.o.