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Legends of Ska: Cool & Copasetic
Starring Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, Alton Ellis and Patsy Todd. Directed by Brad Klein. 102 minutes. Screens Saturday, Aug. 2 at Harbourfront Centre’s Studio Theatre.
Twelve years ago, American DJ, producer, promoter and lifelong Jamaican-music champion Brad Klein curated a pair of memorable concerts at Toronto’s Palais Royale entitled Legends of Ska.
The shows — held on July 12 and 13, 2002, “between the garbage strike and the Pope’s visit,” as Klein recalls — convened an impressive cast of characters from ska’s formative years between 1962 and 1966, when island musicians put a singularly rough-and-ready Jamaican lilt on the sounds of American jazz and R&B and laid the groundwork for the decades of rocksteady, reggae and, of course, second- and third-wave ska to follow.
Klein would spend the next decade lovingly labouring over a documentary about the performances and the colourful artists involved, finally launching Legends of Ska: Cool & Copasetic into the world last year.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...g_overdue.html
Starring Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, Alton Ellis and Patsy Todd. Directed by Brad Klein. 102 minutes. Screens Saturday, Aug. 2 at Harbourfront Centre’s Studio Theatre.
Twelve years ago, American DJ, producer, promoter and lifelong Jamaican-music champion Brad Klein curated a pair of memorable concerts at Toronto’s Palais Royale entitled Legends of Ska.
The shows — held on July 12 and 13, 2002, “between the garbage strike and the Pope’s visit,” as Klein recalls — convened an impressive cast of characters from ska’s formative years between 1962 and 1966, when island musicians put a singularly rough-and-ready Jamaican lilt on the sounds of American jazz and R&B and laid the groundwork for the decades of rocksteady, reggae and, of course, second- and third-wave ska to follow.
Klein would spend the next decade lovingly labouring over a documentary about the performances and the colourful artists involved, finally launching Legends of Ska: Cool & Copasetic into the world last year.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment...g_overdue.html
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