THE SKATALITES

Ska / Reggae / Jazz / Latin from Kingston Jamaica
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THE SKATALITES

Label: World Village Records
since circa 1945
The SKATALITES’ sound is made from many influences dating all the way back to the mid to late 1950s. SKATALITES band have always maintained a heavy jazz and Latin sound as they were influenced by Big Bands both in the US and Cuba. In the early 1960s, the time of Jamaica’s Independence they fused these influences with Jamaica’s traditional music mento/calypso. The word “SKA” named after the sound of the guitar when playing the infectious off beat later became the main beat used in reggae.

The SKATALITES – originators of ska and later rocksteady were also main contributors of the creation of reggae music in Jamaica. Almost all of the early Jamaican reggae and ska singers such as Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, Justin Hinds and the Dominoes and Peter Tosh were accompanied by or worked with the SKATALITES on earlier recordings in the 60s with Coxsone Dodd at the legendary Studio One in Jamaica. Many of Bob Marley’s early tracks such as “Simmer Down” and “Nice Time” were done with the SKATALITES.

Today, many of the riddims used by today’s popular conscious dancehall and roots reggae artists were originally created all or in part by the SKATALITES.
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Lloyd Knibb
1945 - present
Doreen Shaffer
1945 - present
Val Douglas
1945 - present
Kevin Batchelor
1945 - present
Vin Gordon
1945 - present
Devon James
1945 - present
Karl "Cannonball" Bryan
1945 - present
Ken Stuart
Keyboard
1945 - present
Lester Sterling
Alto Sax
1945 - present

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