Gladdy 1968 Vinyl LP 33 Lynn Taitt and the Jets Stereo Album RockSteady Jamaican

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Description

This is a 1968 Stereo vinyl album in the Rock Steady genre of music.  The album sleeve retains the original cellophane wrap.  The top of the sleeve appears to have been carelessly ripped open by the original owner, leaving an uneven opening.  The vinyl itself is in Poor condition, with numerous scratches (untested).  

Rocksteady is a Jamaican music genre that originated in 1966 as a successor to ska and a precursor to reggae. It was the dominant style of music in Jamaica for almost two years and is considered by many to be one of the most influential periods in the development of Jamaican music. 

Nerlynn Taitt (22 June 1934 – 20 January 2010) was a guitarist born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, who later moved to Jamaica and became a pioneer of rocksteady music.

Born Nerlynn Taitt, in San Fernando, Trinidad, he got his start as a musician playing in local steelpan bands, before taking up the guitar aged 14.  He formed his own band, which was booked by Byron Lee to perform at the 1962 independence celebrations in Jamaica.  Taitt decided to stay in Jamaica, living in Kingston, and played in a number of bands including The Sheiks, The Cavaliers, and The Comets, and worked with Baba Brooks, The Skatalites and Tommy McCook and the Supersonics. 

The most successful of his groups was The Jets, formed in 1966 and which included Hux Brown, Headley Bennett, Hopeton Lewis, Gladstone Anderson, and Winston Wright.  

Taitt's guitar style was inventive and unconventional, with a sharp percussive sound that accented the rocksteady beat. Lynn Taitt and the Jets played on hundreds of recording sessions for Jamaican producers such as Bunny Lee, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs, Coxsone Dodd, and Sonia Pottinger, often performing up to five sessions a day.  Their recording of "Take It Easy" was one of the first rocksteady singles and it reached number one in the Jamaican singles chart.

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