Description:

It is a well-known story that ska was born from the fusion of Jamaican mento and Trinidad and Tobago calypso with American jazz and R&B. New Orleans R&B such as Fats Domino and jump blues such as Louis Jordan, which reached Jamaica over the airwaves from the southern United States, attracted the people of Jamaica at that time. This is a compilation of American R&B and Blues music that had a great influence on the birth and development of Ska, compiled by Makoto Wada of Cassette Conross from the vast catalog of Modern, the largest independent Blues/R&B/Soul label on the West Coast, and its affiliated labels. (C)RS