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    NYC TV station to honour sax great

    NYC TV station to honour sax great

    Published: Monday | February 14, 2011 0 Comments


    Cedrick Brooks (left) works out with Kevin Bachelor during CLM TV's third anniversary event last year. - Contributed






    As part of this year's Black History and Reggae Month celebrations, New York-based Caribbean Lifestyle TV, (CLM TV) - which airs weekly on CIN TV, channel 73, WNYC TV in New York - will pay tribute to saxophone great Cedric 'Im' Brooks at the station's 4th anniversary gala and awards ceremony on February 28 in Manhattan.
    Regarded as one of Jamaica's foremost saxophonists, Brooks is known for his solo recordings and being a member of the internationally acclaimed Skatalites Band.

    Brooks, who was admitted as a patient at Bronx Lebanon Hospital in NY last February in an unconscious state, has had a slow recovery and remains in a semi-comatosed state at a nursing home in Queens. He will be honoured for his work and dedication to Jamaica's rich musical history.
    His involvement in the development of Jamaican music spans over 50 years, during which time he contributed his sound to many of Jamaica's best known artistes, including The Wailers, The Heptones and Burning Spear.

    Early in his career, he was a regular studio musician for Clement 'Coxson' Dodd's Studio One label, playing with fellow jazz musicians Ernie Ranglin, Jackie Mittoo, Roland Alphonso, and Vin Gordon.

    Their various Studio One-backed tracks have been versioned repeatedly and form the very backbone of the island's musical heritage.
    Before his illness, Brooks was in the process of re-establishing his Light of Saba Band, a part of his 'Journey to Africa' project. He was also in the beginning stages of writing his autobiography.

    Ironically, one of his last gigs in New York was as a guest performer at CLM TV's third anniversary event, where he, Ras Droppa & The Easy Skankin Band, the dynamic Kevin Bachelor delivered an entertaining performance, offering musical selections until the wee hours of the morning.

    "Cedric is a special friend to all of us at CLM TV. He is a very talented musician and a fabulous human being, who has done so much to advance Jamaica's musical legacy. We wish him a speedy recovery," said co-producer Andrea Bullens.
    “Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
    - Langston Hughes
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  • #2
    Too bad, Cedric won't even know that this is happening.

    I have a friend (Alpha alumnus), who visits him regularly, but his situation is not encouraging.
    “Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
    - Langston Hughes

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    • #3
      Maybe I am not looking hard enough....but could someone guide me to a CD by Cedric Brooks?

      Not one that he has in collaboration with....

      Thanks in advance.
      The only time TRUTH will hurt you...is if you ignore it long enough

      HL

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      • #4
        See if you can find a CD called "Light of Saba"
        “Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
        - Langston Hughes

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        • #5
          Cedric Brooks - Cedric Im Brooks & the Light of Saba [LP Record] by Cedric Brooks
          Overview - Online stores - Tracks - Related albums

          $20 online
          All Music Guide rating
          By Cedric Brooks - Honest Jon's (2008) - Nyahbinghi, Roots Reggae
          It's hard not to gush with admiration when confronted with the music of Cedric Im Brooks & the Light of Saba. It's true fusion music that takes what it wants from jazz, salsa, and African traditions and bends them into a new form without ever breaking.
          A noted Jamaican jazz player and reggae session saxophonist, Brooks formed his band Light of Saba in the late '60s after a brief stay in Philadelphia. During his time there Brooks sat in at clubs impressing players with his Caribbean jazz style. Eventually he encountered Sun Ra, whose complex mix of classic big band, avant-garde jazz and Egyptology resonated with the musically adventurous sax player. He was also tuned into the seismic rumblings of Fela Kuti, the continent leveling jazz advances of Hugh Masekela and most importantly, the music traditions, both rural (nyahbinghi) and urban (reggae), of his Jamaican homeland. Initially, Light of Saba incorporated nyahbinghi drums, but finding the rhythms too rigid and restrictive and being familiar with the pied piper of drums, Olatunje, Brooks widened the percussive umbrella to include a number of African drumming traditions. The results of these spiritually inclined fusions of African, Jamaican, and American musics eventually made it to record and this collection from Honest Jon's gathers these rare, magical sides on to one disc. Magical from the very start, it opens with "Lamb's Bread Collie," setting the tone with phased keyboards, hissing hi hat and chirping birds as the bed for Calvin "Bubbles" Cammron's lilting trombone lead; it's a spacious cosmic sound that could best be compared to discovering a lost recording of Lonnie Liston Smith sitting in with the Fela's Africa 70 band. Horace Silver's classic "Song for My Father" provides an excellent platform for Brooks to showcase his jazz chops, which mix well over the decidedly chunky reggae pulse of the group. "Nobody's Business" and "Sly Mongoose" are two Afro-Calypsos, a style of Jamaican music that sounds fluid and vital here (maybe it's the army of drummers backing up the breezy melodies) despite its maligned status as the sound of cruise ships and tourist traps. In fact there isn't a song here that doesn't include some fantastic crossover moments that redefine what is possible, nor is there a song that doesn't pull it off with resounding flair. ~ Wade Kergan, Rovi « less
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          "Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.


          "It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.

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          • #6
            It ********es me of when these discography exclude ska in the credits.To me its on par with Jazz.

            Cedric 'Im Brooks - From Mento to Reggae to Third World Music [Audio CD] by Cedric 'Im Brooks
            THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!

            "Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.


            "It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.

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            • #7
              Ska on par with Jazz?!!

              Wooops, sorry you did qualify this statement with " To me....."
              The only time TRUTH will hurt you...is if you ignore it long enough

              HL

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