Here the legendary Jamaican tenor sax man returns to his jazz roots (he was as a teenager a member of the Sonny Bradshaw Seven, before forming the Rass Brass reggae horn section in 1977). On this tune, recorded in late 1996, piano is by John Williams, and there are two drummers - Idris Muhammad in the right hand speaker and Sly Dunbar in the left.
The tune itself was recorded by the Mighty Diamonds in 1976 - this cut opens with a brief quote from Joe Zawinul's "Mercy Mercy Mercy", and towards the end the improv takes in a chunk of Johan Sebastian Bach, unless my ears deceive me
Posted on 10/12/2008
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For those of you not familiar with "Have Mercy" by the Mighty Diamonds, it was released on Channel One in 1976, featuring some powerhouse drumming by Sly Dunbar. It sounded like this.
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Of course, when Joseph and Ernest Hoo Kim cut "Have Mercy" at Channel One, they stole its riddim from "Baby Why" by the Cables, recorded at Studio One in 1968
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Sir Coxsone, needless to say, wasn't about to let the Hoo Kim Brothers get away with stealing his tune, so in 1978 he cut the Gladiators on the original riddim and the Mighty Diamonds tune with new lyrics - "Rearrange"
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Quite the bounty here, Mr. B. I don't not have the time to check them now, but I shall return. Thank you for posting.
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and now that i too want to catch up on my missed sunday tunes, the rhapsody is not cooperating! i did get to see dean fraser last month though, pure bliss.