Various - The Ska Beat: 1962 to 1966 LP

LP version. "Ska is still the backbone of Jamaica music, Right?"--Bunny Lee; The music of Jamaica has had a profound and lasting influence all around the world and reggae is the name by which it has become universally known. Although the term "ska" is often used to describe all Jamaican music before dub, DJs and dread in the mid-'70s the real Jamaican ska was made in Kingston between 1961/1962 to 1966. Artists include: The Skatalites, Don Drummond & The Skatalites, Lyn Taitt & The Boys, Tommy McCook & His Ska-Talites, Theophilus Beckford, Johnny "Dizzy" Moore, Roland Alphonso & His Ska-Talites, Lyn Taitt & The Baba Brooks Band, Daniel Johnson, The Tenor Twins, Lloyd Clarke, Baba Brooks & The Trenton Spence Orchestra.