Advantages: Fantastic tracks, very listenable album Disadvantages: Sun is SHining is not on it
collaborated with Jamaican dance hall artist Sean Paul on a cover of this song. Buffalo Soldier, the next track, was on the post-humous 1983 album Confrontation and is a catchy, classic reggae song written about the black soldiers conscripted to fight in the American Civil War.
The CD also contains early tracks such as Get Up, Stand Up written by Bob and original Wailer Peter Tosh (McIntosh) and is on The Wailers 1973 Burnin' album. At this time they worked as The Wailers only, BobMarley and The Wailers didn't become an entity until after 1974. The song became the anthem of Amnesty International and was important in the Rasta movement. Its militancy is quite typical of the Wailers at this time. This is followed by StiritUp, a gentle, chilled track from The Wailers' first album Catch a Fire, released in 1973, the album was important in ...
Advantages: Old favourites remixed as "urban duets" Disadvantages: Not for the purists; this isn't real reggae
the way. Sort of (her child's father is one of Bob's sons - can't remember which but I don't think it's Ziggy).
---THE TRACKS---
My usual track by track listing with marks out of five for the track along with a little proof of how much the track has changed to curry favour with today's musical scene. I've called it T.A.P (This'll Annoy Purists).
1. Rebel Music (Featuring Krayzie Bone)
This opener, from his 1974 album Natty Dread, features one quarter of the hip hop/doo wop quartet Bone Thugs N Harmony who had their day in the sunshine in 1996 and have rarely troubled the charts since. Chart watchers may know them through last year's Crossroads cover by Blazin' Squad. The remix itself is one of admirable restraint and Krayzie Bone generally stays out of the limelight save for a bit of chatter at the end. Not a bad start, but ...
Advantages: A great Ras Disadvantages: Overshadowed his Contemporaries
transforming into rebellious punk-dom) and aimed Bob squarely at this market. The plan worked and The Wailers, following their first Island album release ?Catch A Fire? in 1973, were hailed in Jamaica, the UK and even the US. This was something unparalleled in the history of Carribean-style music although Blackwell had previously had some chart success with Millie Small (?My Boy Lollipop?) and The Spencer Davis Group (?Keep on Running?).
The follow-up album was ?Burning? which included the track ?I Shot the Sheriff? that Eric Clapton covered and pushed to No.1 in the US singles? charts, thereby increasing Marley?s appeal to the Americans. In the UK during 1975 Bob and The Wailers made their famous appearances at the Lyceum Ballroom, two of which were recorded and it was these shows that really introduced Britain to BobMarley the Rastafarian ...
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Product details
Title
Stir It Up (The Music Of Bob Marley) [Hybrid SACD]
Performer
Monty Alexander
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Piano
Release Date
18/07/2001
Original Release Year
1999
Label / Distributor
Telarc Jazz / Proper Note
Engineer
Jack Renner; Robert Friedrich
Producer
Glen Browne; Robert Woods
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
89408346903
Catalogue Number
SACD 63469
Additional notes
Album Notes
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Personnel: Monty Alexander (piano); Steve Turre (trombone, conch shell); Dwight Dawes (keyboards); Robert Angus, Derek DiCenzo (guitar); Trevor McKenzie, Glen Browne, Hassan J.J. Wiggins (bass); Sly Dunbar, Rolando Wilson, Troy Davis (drums); Desmond Jones (percussion). Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York in October 1998. Includes liner notes by Monty Alexander, Dermot Hussey, Neil Tesser.
Album Reviews
Q (9/99, p.100) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "It takes a jazz pianist of Monty Alexander's taste and vision to pull off a project like this without facing a long stretch behind bars for criminal naffness....a real education for anyone still smarting from previous jazz-reggae experiences..." JazzTimes (9/99, p.89) - "...fuses jazz and reggae into a cohesive sound that may portend the future of one-world music without boundaries or labels."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Jammin'
2.
Kaya
3.
Heathen
4.
Could You Be Loved
5.
Running Away
6.
Stir It Up
7.
Is This Love
8.
No Woman No Cry
9.
Crisis
10.
I Shot The Sheriff
11.
So Jah Say
12.
Nesta (He Touched The Sky)
13.
Could You Be Loved
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