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Soul Jazz Records’ new Soul Jamaica brings together a wicked selection of reggae funk and soul tracks from the legendary Studio One stable, featuring a stellar line-up of artists including Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Gladiators, Sim Smith, Peter Tosh and The Wailers, Cedric ‘Im’ Brooks and many more.

For a short period of time at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, nestled between the end of rocksteady and the arrival of roots reggae, Studio One released a small stream of superb soul and funk reggae tunes – covering everyone from Sly and The Family Stone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Nina Simone, Gene Chandler, Tyrone Davis and more.

Most of the tracks featured on Soul Jamaica were only ever released on Studio One’s UK-subsidiary label Bamboo in small-run pressings and are now consequently extremely hard to find.

1-1 Alton Ellis - Tumbling Tears

1-2 Winston Francis - Turn Back The Hands Of Time 

1-3 Sound Dimension - Sing A Simple Song 

1-4 The Gladiators - Fling It Gimme 

1-5 Jackie Mittoo;JACKIE MITTOO - Soul Finger 

1-6 Winston Francis - Groovy Situation 

1-7 Calvin Marshall - La La 69 

1-8 Soul Defenders - Way Back Home 

1-9 The Heptones - Young, Gifted and Black 

1-10 Im and David - Up Fully 

1-11 Slim Smith - Keep That Light 

1-12 Sound Dimension - Give It Away 

1-13 Zoot Simms - Real Gone Loser 

1-14 Sound Dimension - Soul Bowl 

1-15 Peter Tosh - Can't You See 

1-16 Joy Roberts - Someday We'll Be Together 

1-17 The Freedom Singers - Give Peace A Chance 

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BIG BAMBOO SAMPLE, compiled by Clement Dodd in the early 1970s was intended as a sampler for the UK Bamboo label. 

This remixed and remastered version features some of  Studio One’s recent recordings, including the Soul Defenders first session. 

Contains the original album and two bonus tracks including the unreleased Africa Yama. From the Studio One archives. 

Tracklist:

01 – Rainy Night In Georgia - Lord Tanamo

02 – Get Ourselves Together - Winston & Jerry

03 – Choking Kind - Ken Parker

04 – Africa Yama - Sound Dimension

05 - Fat Dog - Roy Richards & The Invaders

06 – Heavy Beat (Take 2) - Im & David

07 – So Long Rastafari Calling - Im & Count Ossie with Mystic Revelation of Rastafari

08 – Suspicious Minds - The Heptones

09 – Selection Train - Selected Few

10 – Maga Dog - Larry Marshall & The Invaders

11 – My Whole World - Ken Parker

12 – Moving Away (Take 2) - Ken Boothe

13 – Mr. Fire Coal Man - Wailing Souls

14 – Sweet You Sour You - Freddie McKay

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