{"product_id":"vinyl-mittoo-jackie-reggae-magic-vinyl-2lp","title":"Reggae Magic (Vinyl)","description":"Jackie Mittoo’s ‘Reggae Magic’ is a new collection from the great Jackie Mittoo. The album features a\u003cbr\u003emixture of classic tunes and rarities from the period 1967-74, when Mittoo was at the height of his musical powers.\u003cbr\u003eMittoo’s solo career began after the end of The Skatalites in 1965. He began pushing new musical boundaries, creating a uniquely identifiable organ-led funky reggae sound that owed as much to Booker T and The MGs, Jimmy Smith, Stax and Motown as to the post-ska and emergent rocksteady island rhythms of Kingston, Jamaica.\u003cbr\u003eHis solo work at the legendary Studio One spanned seven albums and hundreds of singles. Aside from\u003cbr\u003eproducer and founder Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd, it’s hard to think of anyone more central to the sound and success of Studio One than Mittoo; keyboard player extraordinaire, songwriter, arranger, musician, truly the Keyboard King at Studio One.\u003cbr\u003eJackie Mittoo had been the youngest founding member of The Skatalites (at age 16), probably the most\u003cbr\u003eimportant group in Jamaican music. After they split, he became leader of the three pivotal groups at Studio One – The Soul Brothers, The Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension. He also became musical director for\u003cbr\u003eStudio One, helping create countless hits for singers Ken Boothe, Bob Andy, The Wailers, John Holt, Delroy\u003cbr\u003eWilson and more – unforgettable tunes like Alton Ellis’ ‘I’m Still in Love with You’, Marcia Griffiths’ ‘Feel Like Jumping’, The Heptones’ ‘Baby Why’ and others.\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1965 and 1968, many of the tunes created at Studio One can be attributed to Mittoo – timeless instrumental tracks, recorded either under his own name or those of The Soul Brothers, Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension, that have become the basis for literally 1000s and 1000s of Jamaican songs over many\u003cbr\u003edecades, giving the music an unsurpassed longevity.\u003cbr\u003eThe endurance of his music was as a direct result of significant developments in Jamaican music in the 1970s, namely the creation of three important new styles: Dub, Deejay and Dancehall. In the early 1970s Mittoo’s instrumental tracks were used as the musical source for a series of classic Studio One dub albums.\u003cbr\u003eAt the same time Deejays at Studio One, including Dillinger, Prince Jazzbo and Dennis Alcapone, began\u003cbr\u003etoasting over these same popular rhythms to create their own new songs.\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-70s, a new generation of Studio One singers and deejays, including Sugar Minott, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne, Michigan \u0026amp; Smiley and others, began once again creating new melodies over\u003cbr\u003ethese original instrumentals, signalling the birth of a new Jamaican style that became known as ‘dancehall’.\u003cbr\u003eAs dancehall swept across the island, rival producers copied these now classic rhythms.\u003cbr\u003eThese original Jackie Mittoo-driven tunes spread like a virus throughout Jamaican music; be they the instrumental cuts to tunes such as Alton Ellis’ ‘Mad Mad’ , ‘I’m Just A Guy’, Larry Marshall’s ‘Mean Girl’, Slim Smith’s ‘Rougher Yet’, and instrumentals such as Mittoo’s classic ‘Hot Milk’ or ‘One Step Beyond’, The Sound Dimension’s ‘Real Rock’, ‘Heavy Rock’, ‘Full Up’, ‘Drum Song’, ‘Rockfort Rock’ … and the list goes on.\u003cbr\u003eThese tracks became a constant soundtrack to the island, emitting from the ever-present sound of speaker\u003cbr\u003eboxes strung up around dancehalls.\u003cbr\u003eThis recycling travelled even farther afield; The Sound Dimension’s instrumental ‘Real Rock’, updated by\u003cbr\u003eWillie Williams on his classic ‘Armageddon Time’ was in turn covered by The Clash. Lily Allen sampled Mittoo’s debut solo single ‘Free Soul’ for number one hit ‘Smile’; Dawn Penn’s ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’, accompanied by The Soul Vendors, was revived by Penn and producers Steely \u0026amp; Cleevie in 1994, since covered by Rihanna, Ghostface Killah, Stephen Marley, Damian Marley and Beyonce.\u003cbr\u003eAnd so it goes; an endless time-leaping, continent-hopping diasporic musical map of the world with all roads essentially leading back to one man – Jackie Mittoo.","brand":"SOUTHBOUND","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40425822814409,"sku":"460319","price":76.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/7120\/7498\/files\/460319-Product-0-I-638917037332539624.jpg?v=1756111833","url":"https:\/\/www.jbhifi.co.nz\/products\/vinyl-mittoo-jackie-reggae-magic-vinyl-2lp","provider":"JB Hi-Fi NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}