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A Wonderful Post!!
I have always preferred live performances over sanitized studio products, and “Disciplined Child” highlights Inner Circle at its very best! As far as music interpretation is concerned, this recording is exceptional; listen, for example to the truly beautiful, tasteful keyboard introduction!Originally posted by Willi View Post
“Disciplined Child” showcases Jacob Miller’s impressive ability as a singer. As someone on this forum said in a previous post, Miller’s range is outstanding, and I will add that the guy is also very articulate! There should be no challenges for an audience anywhere to understand what he says. Quite simply, Jacob ranks right up there with other super-talented singers like Jamaica’s Delroy Wilson and the USA’s Tony Williams (lead singer for the Platters) and Jackie Wilson!
However, what impressed me more than anything else, aside from Jacob’s voice, were the really outstanding solo breaks by lead guitarist Joe Ortiz, an American. This guy is really good!! Check in particular his closing solo (at around 5.58)! Inner Circle’s drummer (I suspect that this was the brilliant but very unfortunate Calvin McKenzie) is also very good and very creative throughout!
Isn’t it wonderful how ballads and slow tempo songs tend to so often bring out the best in bands?
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Jacob Miller’s “Disciplined Child”
So, are there no other comments on this really outstanding live performance by Jacob Miler and his backing band, Inner Circle? This was a most welcome post by Willi, but aside from Stonigut and Historian, there has been nothing else from anyone!
But I am not surprised, considering the dancehall mentality of (probably) the majority of posters here. The fact, though, is that the apex of Jamaican music’s influence around the globe was reached somewhere in the late 1970s or early 1980s (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jacob Miller, and several others). Jacob’s live performance here is symbolic of that peak.
So, the locally produced mainstream reggae music was very influential. This was, of course, prior to 1985 and Wayne Smith’s epoch-creating “Under Me Sleng Teng,” which, in addition to winning the victory for King Jammy in his battle with Black Scorpio, changed forever the face of reggae music. (That Casio keyboard recording, incidentally, was played by Tony Asher, but I have already discussed this in previous posts.)
Since then, the product has been such that other countries are now relying on their own reggae aggregations, thereby relying less on the Jamaican product.
Thankfully, today, we have talented people like Gyptian, Chronixx, Tarrus Riley, etc. attempting to build on what was started way back in the 1960s by our stars, but they are fighting an uphill battle.
(And yes, ‘Sass my friend, I have considered the increasingly important role of payola in all of this, and not only in Jamaica.)
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