Monty Alexander - Monty Meets Sly And Robbie (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 319 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 121 MB | Covers - 37 MB
Genre: Jazz, Jazz-Reggae, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Telarc (CD-83494)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 319 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 121 MB | Covers - 37 MB
Genre: Jazz, Jazz-Reggae, Fusion | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Telarc (CD-83494)
Jazz purists may turn up the nose at this jazz-reggae summit meeting, but that's their loss. It's not that they wouldn't have the right to be suspicious - experiments in jazz-reggae fusion do not have a distinguished history. But the combination of Jamaican-born jazz pianist Monty Alexander and reggae godfathers Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare works beautifully here for a number of reasons: first of all, Alexander is a gifted melodist with an unerring sense of groove (not always a given with jazz players), and second of all, Sly and Robbie emancipated themselves long ago from reggae's rhythmic strictures, so there's lots of variety on this album…