Band Name: The Skatalites
Music Album: Return Of The Big Guns
Album Release Date: December 2014
Music Genre: Jazz Reggae Ska Rocksteady
Record Label: Island Records
Album Release Country: Japan
Music Record Type: 8 Tracks CD Album Reissue
Tommy McCook, Rolando Alphonso, Johnny Moore, Lester Sterling, Don Drummond, Lloyd Knibb, Lloyd Brevett, Jerry Haynes, and Jackie Mittoo began working together in 1963 and formed The Ska-talites in May 1964. McCook, Drummond, Moore and Sterling were all students at the famed Alpha Boys School in Kingston.
In August 1965 The Skatalites played their last show after Don Drummond's cofinement to Bellvue for the death of his girlfriend, Margarita. The break-up results in the formation of two studio bands, Rolando Alphonso & The Studio One Orchestra and Tommy McCook & The Supersonics.
The band reformed in 1983 and is still active nowadays, despite the death of many original members.
| 1 | After The Rain ✩ |
| 2 | Passing Through ✩ |
| 3 | Reasoning |
| 4 | Jogging ✩ |
| 5 | Meet To Come ✩ |
| 6 | Pep-Hep Lift ✩ |
| 7 | Eastern Rock |
| 8 | Mission |
✩ The original charts for these arrangements were written by the late great Don Drummond. They were later retrieved from his belongings and completed by Tommy McCook. The arrangements are heard for the for the first time on this album.
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