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LINSTEAD MARKET Port O Jam L/P 107 | ||||
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Linstead Market; Wings Of A Dove; River Ben Come Down; Land Of Sea And Sun; Soldering; Jamaica Farewell // Archie; Rucumbine; John Tom; Yellow Bird; My Pussin; Slide Mongoose (i) Original Jamaican issue; (ii) re-issue from 2006 with facsimile sleeve and label. Sugar Belly (real name Wilfred Walker) is Jamiaca's most famous player of the bamboo saxophone. Sugar built his instruments himself from a piece of bamboo with a reed lashed to one end and a bell-shaped piece of aluminium or wood at the other. Sugar Belly began his recording career in the mid-1950s when he appeared as an uncredited sideman on some of the early Jamaican 78rpm records. Several singles were recorded at Studio One in the early 1970s, which mostly found release on the Port O Jam label (often credited to Sugar Belly and the Canefields), as well as two LPs - LINSTEAD MARKET in 1971 and SUGAR MERENGUE the following year. This first LP features Sugar leading a group of traditional musicians (double bass, acoustic and electric guitar, slap drums and tin whistle) playing an entertaining selection of mento and calypso favourites. Sadly, Sugar Belly died in 1990, possibly the last exponent of the bamboo saxophone. Check out Michael Garnice's excellent Mento Music site, which includes an informative page devoted exclusively to Sugar Belly. | ||
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