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Skatalites
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.2433
Skatalites Album Rankings
1
As fans are well aware, although the Skatalites only officially existed for a mere 14 months or so, the bandmembers' impact on Jamaican music extended far beyond that brief period into the rocksteady
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2
Along with Jet Set's Skatalite! and Trojan's Music Is My Occupation, this collection from Culture Press focuses on the Skatalites' fine work for producer Duke Reid from roughly 1962-1965.
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4
Ska music, that peculiar and danceable predecessor of reggae that combines calypso, R&B, swing, and boogie-woogie, has proven a remarkably durable musical genre.
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11
Ball of Fire finds a reunited Skatalites reworking their greatest hits, playing long, extended passages that allow the band to demonstrate their substantial instrumental abilities.
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16
Over the years, the Skatalites went through their share of personnel changes.
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17
So you like vintage ska, with its galloping, proto-reggae backbeats, its massive horn sections and its whanging, hip-shaking drum sound? You like the jazzy solos, the catch phrases shouted out at the
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