Deep Roots Music - Miss lou Jack Ruby Ska Mento Tommy McCook Millie Small
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Close to the end of Pimento and Hot Pepper: The Story of Mento Music, the connection between Elephant Man's Chaka Chaka and the melody of Sammy Dead is clearly illustrated, even before the documentary's narrative reasserts a point made close to the beginning. Mento is positioned as "Jamaica's original foundation music, the father of them all."
Still, children grow up and the father is not always the family's driving force, especially in his declining years. And, as the documentary outlines, mento had waned around the time of Jamaica's independence as ska took hold (though the influence was there, mento singer Lord Tanamo was recruited into the Holy Grail of ska, The Skatalites) and the sound systems - boosted by rural electrification - overpowered the acoustic mento musicians. However, it ends on a note of hope, following tours outside Jamaica by The Jolly Boys and Gilzene & The Blue Light Mento Band.
This is even as the last words go to now deceased mento standouts interviewed for the Rick Elgood-directed Billmon Productions documentary. The best known of these would most likely be The Jolly Boys' Joseph 'Powda' Bennett (1937-2014), Cecil Chambers (1940-2014), Nelson Chambers (1944-2010) and Albert Morgan (1937-2011). Referring to touring, Morgan makes a statement that could be about mento itself:
"Sometimes they want us to go away, but we can't make it."
Pimento and Hot Pepper: The Story of Mento Music screened last February during the Jamaica Music Museum's February 2017 Grounation series which focused on mento, and does more than trace the music's life cycle.
CONSISTENT INPUT
After opening with a dramatisation of Dry Weather House at each clearly defined stage, among them The Early Years and Music and Instruments, it contextualises the content with the consistent input and analysis of people like Garth White, Dr Daniel Neely, Colby 'Vintage Boss' Graham and former Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga.
This analysis makes the documentary valuable beyond a chronology, and shows that mento is beyond rum and raucousness.
And the bands involved, among them The Happy Smilers, Lititz Mento Band, The Triangles, and Kew Park Mento Band, show that there are active units, even if they are not as loud - in more ways than one - that performers in the genres succeeding mento. Due credit is also given to the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission for mento's revival though its Festival competition.
Among the fascinating names in Pimento and Hot Pepper: The Story of Mento Music are the travelling duo Slim and Sam, Lord Flea and musicians Baba Mac, Pork Chops and 'Sugar Belly' Walker, who plays the instrument that earned him a place in dancehall classic Pumpkin Belly by Tenor Saw, who sang "yu tink a so Sugar Belly became the king of the saxophone?
Source Jamaican Daily Gleaner
lovely revival that is my way lovely thank you for share the real thing
Our fore parents set the ting. The languages, music, culture, food, speech, walk talk their attitude, the drums. One slave master said " I dont know how they do it .'they dance, sing, beat drums all night and get up before day to work in the hot sun. Thank you for leaving this rich culture and legacy its priceless!!!
The man them need to see where reggae start from they need to respect hour coultur. and have love and respect for each other. a blessing to those musicians. Bless up.
If mi love Miss Lou one more time! Jamaica land of my birth!
Sasha Eltekeh however 05:00 more must be said about the terms they agreed with the british
If not to condemn them just so that we appreciate what they force people to do
Salute Honorable ancestors , great heritage 🫡 🎖
A Jamaica mi com from! The beat of the music is in my blood.
Give praises Iyah for this excellent research and documentation, let JAHJAH arise and His enemies permanently dissolved. Awesome historical contents from the ashes wi waah more of these historical documentaries Tobe published and even taught in the school system of Jamaica and the diaspora. Ultimate and paramount raspect. Haile High Emperor Selassie.
That was an amazing compilation of history told rather simply. I enjoyed the links between the changes in style and the selection of artists to demonstrate the changes. Thank you for sharing.
I listen to this presentation ever so often to hear mi idren's voice, blessed.
Authentic documentary on the history of reggae music..❤💛💚
Y greeting from Chile to your's wanderfull work wiht poetry, and lyrics Jamaican Culture's.
Jamaica has come a long way, too bad it seems like our culture is dying. We have become so Americanized, many of us are afraid to embrace who we really are.
Agreed, our culture is rich but we don't have some of these things passed down to the youth. I've always loved our traditional music but finding the records and information is hard for me. Our great musician from that time also die sometimes without passing it down or documenting it. I am thankful for this video
Politicians do nothing to maintain the culture
@@crucialpdenislea1963 n when did they ever?
It is worth changing back to our culture. I am glad this video helps show our culture.
@@crucialpdenislea1963 that's right
❤mento one of our first music
Mikey DREAD AT THE CONTROL MI IDREN! Long live your works.
great moments give R I P late great Prince buster
Sing IT Sista Louise!
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Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work pure good vibes 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Icho Candy at 1 31' 05" and Mikey Simpson at 1 33'40" , some great footage
give thanks to IRIE FM for shearing the moment coming from little Dee original
Little Dee Original ### what nonsense you talking
R.I.P Jimmy Riley
Those convertion is being a very long time,I was born in the 1950s . This thing about maroons they were very bad slaves,in 1665 when the British capturing Jamaica from the Spanish.So they free the slaves to help them to fought the British, some of them help the British to defeated the Spanish.But the maroons were no tribe like what I heard some of them talking, nothing go like that.My grandmother was born in 1896, and my grandfather was born in 1890, and they useto tell us stories about their grandparents what they experience while growing up.Is was what was passed down to them by their foreparents from Africa, so is nothing they are copying from no other nations.It was the slaves culture what they practicing for hundreds of years while they were in Africa,but some of those bloggers coming on the media don't get their facts right at all.When I checked out our history I found out that the British government changed up a lot of things, and with all the so-called eductors.They are not knowledgeable to put out the right information, because far long plenty of Jamaicans does not know their history at all.But the government refuses to changed it, and replace it with the right information.There was a young lady took me on saying that the maroons was the rightful owner of Jamaica, so I asked him to explain it to me.But all she was making a lot of contention with me, the funniest thing she was around when Jamaica gained Independence and.I was going to elementary school back in those days before the government changed it to all age school, and primary school, and then high schools.They were no junior secondary before Independence, but these younger generation just like to talked pure bullshit.Because they allowing their egos over powering their performances, and they becomes very egoestical also too self-centered.They are not willing to learned from the elders,who have been around a very long time before most of them were born.I useto lived besides a poco church, so I know how they behaves at times.But I must say that they bad Jamaican they are from the group of those bad runaway slaves,which claims that they are the rightful owner of Jamaica.Who useto run down the other slaves, and sold them back to the slaves masters.So up until now we are having those kind of traitors still existing in Jamaica, selling out one another for a few dollars.There only two tribes came to Jamaica during those days the Ashanti and the Amarante, and the language they spoke named akan.So you heard some people talking all types of bullshit, you can go into the Jamaica heritage and found out a lot of information.Or you could go into the library archive, and found out a lot of things they never taught us in school.So of us is still under the dark clouds not knowing the intricacies of Jamaica, because some of them is too lazy to do some research on their own to verifies certain information.Most of our information was manipulated by the British,by putting the wrong information in our texts books in school to control our minds for hundreds of years in Jamaica until now.
Back in the day blacks were so humble, just trying to make it from day to day, all they had was hope, didn't bother nobody , the longest day will come to an end.
The history of the development of reggae always skips Sugar Belly. He is the father of the Chop. I am excited about him.
Sugar Belly.. a very important man
So damn true! He dominated the airwaves when I was a kid.
Sleep well Prince.
such rich culture in Jamaica still we try to copy others
All them drop catch revivals FOREIGN evangelist such as BENNY HEIM made fortunes on TV...Never late for us to start up our OWN..
Mis headna
Lima.Peru
1:34:00 Mickey Simpson change the moooooood!!!!!
It's embarassing how drunk the two DeeJays them are - given that there's a documentary being filmed and maybe even a paying audience around them.
Oh give it a rest
Was thinking a bit the same, what was the use..?
Enjoyed the video, thanks! Does anyone know the name of the instrumental track that starts at approx. 1:25:41
Have been trying to search for it (on/ off) since I heard part of it playing in another documentary about the history of Reggae music.
Thanks in advance!
Here you go! ruclips.net/video/d5h-G_Z3sC8/видео.html
Musically Jamaica a lead. Dem can't test
The originator
This is Early seventies
Late seventies* 1980 to be exact. Some of the music in this documentary wasn’t released until mid , late 70s practically 1980
1:28:20
Song @ 1:22:37 ?
Poco is a dirriditive of black magic.
Revival means from dead works to rightousness they dress the same but not the same thing a poco member cannot worship with the revivalists because the holy ghost will not have it