Pressed on 180 G Vinyl
With their authentic formula - jazz musicians in a Jamaican-wise context - Jamaican Jazz Orchestra come with a second album that feels like a fresh dive in the lake on a humid tropical day. The album outshines in goodness and has a forget-all-you-sorrows-feeling going on. High quality musicianship and clever compositions recorded analog on tape, guided by producer Tom Callens (Lady Linn, Lester’s Blues, South of the Border, Tiny Legs Tim) and provided with an iconic album cover leave no doubt about the extraordinary character of this record. Being an instrumental album in essence, there is one exception, the song ‘Morning Girl’ featuring the young Brasilian/Belgian Helena Casella on vocals. Together with the track ‘Happy Earthquake’, it was released as single on digital platforms earlier this year. For those who are still sceptic, Ernest Ranglin, Monty Alexander, Skatalites, Sonny Rollins and even Django Reinhardt are never far away.