Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Meet The Revolutionaries (1977)
BAND/ARTIST: Bobby Ellis, The Professionals
- Title: Meet The Revolutionaries
- Year Of Release: 1977/2015
- Label: Gorgon Records
- Genre: Reggae
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 41 min
- Total Size: 258 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Back in the days when blaring horns figured strongly in Jamaican popular music, trumpeter Bobby Ellis was in demand as a session man and arranger. Born in west Kingston, Ellis first took up the trumpet in 1941 at the Alpha Boys School; when he left the Roman Catholic institution, he played on the Kingston club scene.
Ellis started recording at Studio One in the early 1960s; he remembers his first time on record being his own composition, Cyrus, with the Mighty Vikings band before going on to work on hit songs by The Wailers (Lonesome Feeling), There's a Reward (Joe Higgs) and I've Got to Go Back Home by Bob Andy.
Most of Ellis' time at Studio One was spent as horn arranger. After leaving Clement Dodd's studio, Ellis became a part of Trinidadian guitarist Lynn Taitt's band, The Jets, which also included fellow saxophonists Headley "Deadly Headley" Bennett and Carlton Samuels, keyboardist Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson, bass player Brian Atkinson and drummer Joe Isaacs.
Ellis' reputation as a trumpeter and arranger had grown by the dawn of the 1970s when reggae was growing in stature. It was during this period that some of his best work can be heard, particularly on Burning Spear's landmark Marcus Garvey and Man in The Hills albums which were produced by Lawrence "Jack Ruby" Lindo and distributed by Island Records.
Ellis spent 10 years touring and recording with Spear. The computer age has ended the career of many a horn man, and Ellis, now 71, is no exception; he continues to tour, however, going on the road intermittently with Bunny Wailer and has just returned from Europe with The Mighty Diamonds.
The Professionals
House band of reggae producer Joe Gibbs.
At different times, members included Lloyd Parks, George Fulwood and Robbie Shakespeare (bass), Sly Dunbar and Horsemouth (drums), Tony Chin, Willie Lindo, Earl Chinna Smith and Bingi Bunny (guitar), Gladdy Anderson, Winston Wright, Franklin Waul and Ossie Hibbert (keyboards), Ruddy Thomas and Sticky (percussion), along with a horns section featuring Tommy McCook (tenor sax), Bobby Ellis (trumpet), Vinnie Gordon (trombone) and Herman Marquis (alto sax).
Tracklist:
1.01 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Smiling Rockers (3:30)
1.02 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Shanking Rockers (4:14)
1.03 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Riding Uptown (3:45)
1.04 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Rocking Jamboree (4:27)
1.05 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Hot Lava (3:29)
1.06 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Movements of His Majesty (4:42)
1.07 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Militant Salute (4:38)
1.08 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Ginnigog Miser (3:48)
1.09 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Black Unity (4:47)
1.10 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Sergent Tolowah (4:16)
Ellis started recording at Studio One in the early 1960s; he remembers his first time on record being his own composition, Cyrus, with the Mighty Vikings band before going on to work on hit songs by The Wailers (Lonesome Feeling), There's a Reward (Joe Higgs) and I've Got to Go Back Home by Bob Andy.
Most of Ellis' time at Studio One was spent as horn arranger. After leaving Clement Dodd's studio, Ellis became a part of Trinidadian guitarist Lynn Taitt's band, The Jets, which also included fellow saxophonists Headley "Deadly Headley" Bennett and Carlton Samuels, keyboardist Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson, bass player Brian Atkinson and drummer Joe Isaacs.
Ellis' reputation as a trumpeter and arranger had grown by the dawn of the 1970s when reggae was growing in stature. It was during this period that some of his best work can be heard, particularly on Burning Spear's landmark Marcus Garvey and Man in The Hills albums which were produced by Lawrence "Jack Ruby" Lindo and distributed by Island Records.
Ellis spent 10 years touring and recording with Spear. The computer age has ended the career of many a horn man, and Ellis, now 71, is no exception; he continues to tour, however, going on the road intermittently with Bunny Wailer and has just returned from Europe with The Mighty Diamonds.
The Professionals
House band of reggae producer Joe Gibbs.
At different times, members included Lloyd Parks, George Fulwood and Robbie Shakespeare (bass), Sly Dunbar and Horsemouth (drums), Tony Chin, Willie Lindo, Earl Chinna Smith and Bingi Bunny (guitar), Gladdy Anderson, Winston Wright, Franklin Waul and Ossie Hibbert (keyboards), Ruddy Thomas and Sticky (percussion), along with a horns section featuring Tommy McCook (tenor sax), Bobby Ellis (trumpet), Vinnie Gordon (trombone) and Herman Marquis (alto sax).
Tracklist:
1.01 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Smiling Rockers (3:30)
1.02 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Shanking Rockers (4:14)
1.03 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Riding Uptown (3:45)
1.04 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Rocking Jamboree (4:27)
1.05 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Hot Lava (3:29)
1.06 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Movements of His Majesty (4:42)
1.07 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Militant Salute (4:38)
1.08 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Ginnigog Miser (3:48)
1.09 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Black Unity (4:47)
1.10 - Bobby Ellis, The Professionals - Sergent Tolowah (4:16)
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