CARLOS MALCOLM & His Afro-Jamaican Rhythms <> Skamania - The Sound of the Soil

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ORIGINAL 1962 JAMAICA MONO LP FIRST PRESSING on UPBEAT RECORDS, Catalog # 101

 

Carlos Malcolm is a , and bandleader who was most popular in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Biography

Malcolm was born in c.1935 to Jamaican parents and grew up in . His father led a Panamanian band that he took to Jamaica in 1936. He received a formal musical education before starting to work professionally in the late 1950s. His first employment was as trombonist in 's band. Malcolm was also one of the founders of the and led its orchestra from 1962.

Along with musicians such as and , Malcolm formed a short-lived school of with the aim of producing home-grown jazz musicians who could make music that would sell overseas; Recorded music at that time was generally imported.

Malcolm worked as a composer and arranger in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing much of the incidental music for the film in 1963 for which he was appointed director of "island content" of the musical score, and he also appeared in the film. He formed his own band in 1963 called the Afro-Jamaican Rhythms (aka the Afro-Caribs), with members including (saxophone), Larry McDonald (conga drums), (vocals, bass), (vocals), and Winston "Sparrow" Martin (drums). Other members during the 1960s included , , and Eddie Parkins. The band played a blend of , , African and jazz music and recorded several albums in the 1960s. They enjoyed a big hit in Jamaica in 1964 with their version of the theme from , retitled "Bonanza Ska". Other hits included "Rukumbine" (1963). Malcolm also spent time in New York in the mid-1960s where he recorded the albums Don't Walk, Dance! (1964) and Sounds of the Caribbean (1966), mixing caribbean and American styles. His 1970 album Bustin' Outta the Ghetto concentrated on funk with only a slight Jamaican influence.

Malcolm went on to lead the Jamaican National Orchestra.

In 1998 he collaborated with US violinist and producer Robert Michael Way, aka, "Zimbobway" on a projected pair of albums, The Return of Skalypso and No Forget The Bamboo Man. During this collaborative work, Carlos arranged twenty four songs including four new compositions of ska and mento as well as four original works by Zimbobway. Musicians in the King Kingston Orchestra included Jamaican music legends Lloyd Wilkes (lead vocals) from The Sheiks, Pluto Shervington (bass/vocals), Trevor Lopez (guitar/vocals), Larry MacDonald (percussion), Fred Campbell (drums), and Cedric Im' Brooks (tenor saxophone)(all original members and players with Carlos Malcolm and the Afro-Jamaican Rhythms).

Malcolm received the Prime Minister's Gala Award in 2000 for his contribution to the development of Jamaican music.

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