I Come From Jamaica / Country Girl Blues by Chris Powell - Jukebox Jam Series [JBJ1012] FLAC download included with physical items

I Come From Jamaica / Country Girl Blues

Chris Powell

A 2 track jump blues single (5m 55s) — released January 24th 2011 on Jukebox Jam Series

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New from Jukebox Jam comes something else - a wild Carib-Jazz flavoured R&B gem flipped with a big and brash big city Jump Blues number! A neat pairing of two of Chris Powell's hottest sides! The top side 'I Come From Jamaica' is a totally unique early exotic RnB jam, whilst 'Country Girl Blues', is a delicious RnB dancehall mover aimed at shakin' hips & shufflin' feet! Bandleader Chris Powell was a relatively busy in Philly through the late 40s and 50s, cutting a raft of Jump sides and a number of crooning big-band ballads for the Columbia, Okeh and Grand labels. Amidst his releases for Okeh lies this curious novelty - 'I Come from Jamaica', unlike anything else Powell recorded and similarly out of sorts with much of the contemporary R&B sounds of the day. From the off, as we hear odd percussive sound effects over an off kilter latin rhythm, it's clear that we are in experimental territory. What follows is a sheer delight - an exotic, jazzy, Caribbean themed dancer which ALWAYS turns heads! This also showcases the first known recorded work of the influential jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown.
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