Jungle
Music / Jungle Beat
(Rico Rodriguez)
Recorded 1981/1982 with Jerry Dammers,
John "Brad" Bradbury, Dick Cuthell, Anthony Wymhurst (g), Satch Dixon,
Groco (perc), Horace Panter
released 1982 as
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Rico & The Special AKA: Jungle
Music b/w Rasta Call You (7": 2Tone CHS TT 19)
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Rico & The Special AKA: Jungle
Music b/w Rasta Call You / Easter Island (12": 2Tone
CHS 1219)
re-released in
1983 on:
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V.A.: This Are Two Tone (LP:
2Tone CHS TT 5007)
1993 on:
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V.A.: The Complete 2Tone Story
(4CD: 2Tone/Chrysalis)
Still after 20 years this track
is pure pleasure and remains a wonderful piece of music. Jerry Dammers
and Dick Cuthell explore the music they started to develop resulting two
years later in their most famous "Nelson Mandela" single: it's more
high life than reggae, but still reggae - and Rico manages to play solo
trombone and singing and assembling the different styles. Perfect.
George Marshall wrote in 1990: "Jungle
Music could have come straight out of Walt Disney's Jungle Book
let alone Walt Jabsco's stable (a compliment from a big fan of the film's
music), and was Rico's most commercial released to date. He even put his
trombone down often enough to supply the vocals. ... Of all the 2Tone records
not making the charts, the colourful Jungle Music has the right
to feel most hard done by. Still, the public's loss was the true fan's
gain." (The Two Tone Story, p. 79)
Since the 1990s Rico
presented the song in a different arrangement live as "Jungle Beat".
Live versions are recorded:
29.3.1994 at FZW, Dortmund,
Germany with Euromobile by Peter Brandt. Mixed and produced by H.P. Setter
at T´Bwana Studio, Dortmund. Mastered by John Cremer at EMI, Köln
with: Rico Rodriguez (trombone,
vocals), Eddie "Tantan" Thornton (trumpet), Michael "Bammie" Rose (saxophone,
flute), Tony "Grocho" Uter (percussion), Chris Hewie (keyboards), Michael
Jaques (guitar), Kelvin Nash (bass), Julian Rout (drums)
released in 1994 on
11.11.2000 at "El Sotano"
or on 20.10.2001 at "Niceto Club", Buenos Aires, Argentina
Exec. production: Sebastian Paradisi,
Oscar Martin Cueto, Jose Luis Gutierrez, Alejandro Paradiso for Jama Roots
Records. Eng.: Pedro Pearson, ass.eng: Facundo Fernandez with Rico Rodriguez
(tb, voc) and the Roots To The Bone Band > Juan Velasquez (b), Sebastian
"Sebolla" Paradisi (dr), Maneco Saez-Germain (g), Tomas Pearson (g), Dante
Clementino (keyb), Guillermo "La Hiena" Soriano (perc), Hugo Lobo (tr),
Sergio Colombo (ts)
released in 2003 on
Last updated: 4.4.2000
compiled by Reinhard
Braun
Rico's
Music