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why was there never a count ossie studio one LP...far fetched question but im sure one of you have some insight to this. Ossie along with many others featured on studio one roots vol.1 soul jazz comp. never released an entire LP with such a roots feel. what is the deal with this...

Count Ossie have some recordings with Coxsone.
But not a nuff for a Album.

The songs are:
Hail HIM 7"
Holly Mouth zion 7"
Musical science lp Dub store special.
Give me back me language 7"
With Cedric Brooks -So long rastafari calling
With Rolando Alphonso - Cool breeze
Black up. V.A. Soul Jazz lp
Roots meditation V.A. Soul jazz lp



Lion

I think Ossie and his drummers contributed to the Lennie Hibbert lp's from St.One, check me on that. remember that Rastafarians always were and are but a very small percentage of Jamaican musicians, despite their massive influence. also I'd guess Ossie, as a figurehead, stayed in Wareika Hills most of the time and city life and studios he seldom visited. many devout Rastas (Dizzy Moore, Cedric Brooks, Rico, Vernon Allen and Fred Locks) followed this trend, at least intermittantly, and seem under-recorded in their vital years. Mortimer Plano was featured on only one rare single. names like Ronald Downer appear on only two sides, and even into the early 70's with Ras Michael and Light of Saba bringing Nyabhingi to studio, there were but few other Nyahbinghi-inspired sides from Ras Lara, Jah Joe, Zoot Simms, Uncle Louis (Yabby You's mentor) and select others.

Personally, I think mystic music retains its mystic edge if not over-recorded, as un-Jamaican as that concept is

what's interesting to me is how much Rasta influence there was in the r&b/proto-ska era of the early 60's (Busty & Cool, Allen & Hamilton, Ossie, King Joe, Dizzy and Rico) that dwindled through the 60's and early 70's. Lennie Hibbert, Leslie Butler and Count Ossie supported some treacherous Rasta tracks for Sonia Pottinger in the rocksteady era, but those seemed counter to the tempo of ska, the sweet harmonies and brilliant guitar work of rocksteady and later, the jumpy 'skinhead' sounds. Ossie and the Jazz Crusaders/ Mystic Revelations released their Grounation lp around 1972, and Ossie did his limited Studio One recording around then, but quite possibly Rastafarian folk music needed the 70's one drop framework to really deliver its message and find its recorded voice again, as heralded by the Abyssinians' 'Satta Amasagana.'

Ras Micheal and the Sons of Negus.

These true true Ratsas got on plenty of wax.

Jah! Rastafari!

'Ratsas'??





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it's not every artist that went to coxsone came out with an LP I WOULD love to here an LP big joe at studio 1 but it didnt happen ; now in 2007 different record companys are compiling artist onLPS& cds & u my beleave that this is there first album

Crucial Cedric Brooks & Count Ossie on 7" Coxsone

[A] Beat Down Babylon - Freddie McGregor

Right On Rasta - I'm & Count Ossie

both sides on Beat Down Babylon rhythm