Stretching Out, by The Skatalites

Stretching Out

by The Skatalites

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1.	Freedom Sounds 06:20	info	buy track
2.	Bridge View 03:09	info	buy track
3.	Latin Goes Ska 06:13	info	buy track
4.	Tear Up 04:02	info	buy track
5.	Guns of Navarone 04:53	info	buy track
6.	Man In The Street 04:30	info	buy track
7.	Come Dung 04:00	info	buy track
8.	Big Trombone 04:11	info	buy track
9.	Ska Ba 10:41	info	buy track
10.	Road Block 05:41	info	buy track
11.	Eastern STD Time 04:26	info	buy track
12.	Confucius 05:04	info	buy track
13.	Lee Harvey Oswald 04:03	info	buy track
14.	Black Sunday 12:30	info	buy track
15.	Mood For Ska 03:11	info	buy track
16.	Fidel Castro (#1) 07:52	info	buy track
17.	El Pussy Cat 05:40	info	buy track
18.	Four Corners 03:12	info	buy track
19.	Exodus 04:47	info	buy track
20.	Old Fowl 05:03	info	buy track
21.	Fidel Castro (#2) 08:39	info	buy track
22.	Welcome Back Home 05:25	info	buy track

about

In 1983 Herbie Miller, manager of Peter Tosh brought the original Skatalites (minus the late Don Drummond) back to Jamaica from all over the world to perform at the 1983 Jamaica Sunsplash.

The Skatalites had broken up 18 years earlier, after their short career of two years (1963-1965). Personal disagreements, conflicts and animosities had driven these inventors of Ska and master musicians to seek their own future as individual artists.

There were no restrictions on the length of sets, no barriers on solos or improvisational experiments, and no recording studio limits on how long each song should last. They stretched out, played out, and had a joyous 18th anniversary celebration and reunion.

Fortunately, Miller recorded the rehearsals and nightclub performances and captured for history (and dance – mad Ska mavens) all the spontaneity, fire, electricity, and good fellowship of that unique moment. Ska at its best by the greatest Ska musicians in the world!

“Sounds better than the 60’s studio rarities”. – Robert Christgau,

“Skank that swings like a cat in a very small space” – Melody Maker U.K.

“Marathon Ska blow-out courtesy of ROIR. Fans of The Specials, The Beat and the entire Ska/Blue Beat revival will find this get together of the original teachers a treat.” NME U.K.