Get your copy of Carlos Malcolm’s New Book, “From New Orleans Jazz/Blues to Jamaican Reggae”
Carlos Malcolm’s New Book is a Literary Masterpiece
In recent times, popular Jamaican Ska, Reggae, and Dancehall music have made indelible impressions upon the youth culture in more than 100 countries. In this literary masterpiece, Carlos Malcolm chronicles the journey and evolution of modern Jamaican urban music from its genesis and development during the Post-War (WWII) years. This journey introduces some of the gifted players who helped to hone Jamaica’s music for worldwide acceptance.
Read about the great Jazz, Blues, Jamaican Reggae Luminaries
Luminaries such as Prince Buster, Ernest Ranglin, Don Drummond and Lynn Tait are but a few of the individuals who brought forth infectious rhythms from the ‘sounds of the soil’ in Jamaica. From New Orleans Jazz/Blues to Jamaican Reggae is an easy, revealing read. The book includes music charts for historians, musicians, and others interested in the watershed moments in the growth of Jamaica’s urbanized music. Carlos Malcolm’s book is far more than an entertaining read about one of the most celebrated dance bands in Jamaican musical history.
The work is scholarly in its historical account of a process and the specific contributions of talented individuals who, collectively, honed and created a new style and format that became, ultimately, the global sound called Reggae.
This New Book Details Carlos Malcolm’s Musical Influences
Malcolm identifies and documents the various influences that came from the music in the streets and dance halls of Louisiana and across the lands of Cuba and Jamaica. By including sheet music to illustrate the work, Carlos Malcolm brings students and musicians to experience and understand the music he wrote and now writes about.
As stated by The Honourable P.J. Patterson renowned scholar and former two-term Prime Minister of Jamaica: “No one is better suited to write a personal history of post-war Jamaican music than Carlos Malcolm. New Orleans Jazz/Blues to Jamaican Reggae is an authentic work of scholarship by a renowned musicologist and one who through his own creative genius has created musical charts and given eyewitness accounts of his active participation in some of the watershed moments in the genesis and evolution of Jamaican ‘urbanized’ music and set the vogue for Afro-Jamaican Rhythms”
Carlos Malcolm, A Musical Chameleon
Today, Jamaica’s ‘urbanized’ music genres – (Ska, Reggae, Dancehall) – have emerged as the music from the Caribbean musical experience most internationally popular. Carlos Malcolm has often been referred to as a musical chameleon because of his ability to adapt and function on many levels of music. In over five decades, Malcolm, a graduate of the Union Institute & University located in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been professionally involved on almost every level of Jamaican music.
Carlos Malcolm – Music Composer, Arranger, Producer, and Educator
Government-owned Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation of the 1960s contracted Malcolm as a composer/arranger/producer and educator. Edited by Mike Jarrett, in this book Malcolm chronicles the journey and development of Jamaican ‘urbanized’ music, from its inception during the Post (WWII) War years to the present worldwide popularity of Jamaican Reggae and Dancehall music. “From New Orleans Jazz/Blues to Jamaican Reggae” is an easy revealing read, especially for students and aficionados of the history of Jamaica’s ‘urbanized’ music.
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