Monty Alexander with Ernest Ranglin: Rocksteady.Monty Alexander Monty Alexander (born Montgomery Bernard Alexander on June 6, 1944 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican pianist and melodica player. His playing has a strong Caribbean influence and swinging feeling, but he has also been influenced by Wynton Kelly, Art Tatum, Gene Harris and with Ernest Ranglin Ernest Ranglin (born June 19, 1932 in Manchester, Jamaica) is a guitarist whose session work at Studio One helped give birth to the ska genre in the late 1950s. Ranglin played on many classic Jamaican recordings, and he performed with artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Monty : Rocksteady (Telarc CD-83581) Monty Alexander has released a number of recordings for Telarc, most of which have been, at least to these ears, of marginal musical value. Ernest Ranglin has released just a few Telarc recordings, but they have all been excellent. So what do you get when the two of them record together for Telarc? It's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have either another great Ernest Ranglin CD, or else maybe it is the first really worthwhile Monty Alexander CD. In any event, what we have here is some fun music with Alexander on piano and melodica, Ranglin on guitar, and several Jamaican musicians backing them up. "Rocksteady" music is something like reggae-inflected jazz, and these guys have a great time playing it. Ranglin just tears tears, watery secretion of the lacrimal gland, which is located at the outer corner of the eye socket immediately above the eyeball. Tearing, or lacrimation, is a continuous and largely involuntary process stimulated by the autonomic nervous system. up on the guitar, and Alexander has all kinds of fun noodling
Noodling is the practice and sport of fishing for catfish using only one's bare hands. around on the melodica--when was the last time you heard one of those? The mood is upbeat, the music is great fun, and you will find yourself wanting to play this disc over and over just for the sheer fun of it, or maybe to dance to it. |
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