Playing the saxophone Reggae saxophone

[dreadnet]

It may also be the other way round. My recollection is that back in the 50s/60s in Jamaica the radios could pick up predominantly New Orleans radio easily.

Jazz influenced reggae in Jamaica massively. Wealthy Americans were there at the beginning of first class carribean travel in the 50's.
Jazz bands playing for posh holidaymakers. Plus radio Jamaica playing american jazz tunes.

A friend of mine has an original 7" record of Horace Silver Too much sake that his father bought in Jamaica.

 

[Grumps]

I know this is going to be breaking a code of some sort as a musician but I really don't care much for reggae.

I hear ya there. I'm pretty much old school myself, liking early Wailers stuff before Bob became the front man. Heck, I even saw Bunny Wailer at the Warner some time ago and that was like the mountain top for me in this regard. BUT... is there an audience for it?

A band I played with about a dozen years ago was driven by a songwriter who really dug the Dub.... or whatever that is. Thing is, though not the best singer, he could write these really decent songs and put them to more of a ska beat and this was the stuff I wanted to do. He wanted to also lean on the reggae... and it was the sort of stuff that could bring a set down. Eventually he moved on to a dub band and got to play the reggae he wanted to... which didn't last. So now we've reunited and are working with a new drummer on a set or two... and are resisting the dub and focusing more on the upbeat ska.

A lot of our covers now are more sax driven than vocal driven and I hope to have some recordings when we're ready to gig. I do have our rehearsal tapes up on my soundcloud page from years ago and maybe folks have caught some of that. They are rough mixes though, all in one take, from practice. Basically the singer would play the tune. I'd add in what I felt was needed the second time through and then we'd arrange it and tape it the third or fourth time we played it. Then we'd have a form to work with to tighten it up. None of it's reggae though. More like pop ska:

https://soundcloud.com/akagrumps%2Fsets%2Fdream-grenades

View: https://soundcloud.com/akagrumps/sets/dream-grenades

 

[thomsax]

I like Cedric Im Brooks ........

View: https://youtu.be/etKfUIZy4Z0?si=tyBs3WwGNGh36BcQ

View: https://youtu.be/igWwNt8urBI?si=AoI30o3NNX2IIa-q

 

[AlonW]

I like Cedric Im Brooks ........

View: https://youtu.be/etKfUIZy4Z0?si=tyBs3WwGNGh36BcQ

View: https://youtu.be/igWwNt8urBI?si=AoI30o3NNX2IIa-q

So good!

 

[PiccoloPirate]

What, no dreadlocks. 🙀

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUBZWbHHAp8

 

[dreadnet]

Smooth

View: https://youtu.be/xMCefaQxGqk