The Skavolutionary Jamaican Ska Orchestra

All instrumentalists urged to contact and become part of a new and vital Jamaican Ska band, the Ska-Volutionary Jamaican Ska Ochestra.
Instrumentalists required: Drums Percussion Piano / Organ Guitar Trumpet Trombone Tenor Sax Alto Sax Lady Vocals
Full songbook of 20+ songs with parts for all instrumentalists is ready for you. Many connections in the San Diego and Los Angeles area for both performing and recording.
Age unimportant. The only requisite characteristics for players in this band is that they be passionate and serious about Jamaican Ska music, and that they possess a progressive mindset, eager to bring about change in the world through the vehicle of powerful music with a philosophy that is appropriate to save the world during this time of war, exploitation, environmental degradation, and widespread greed. They did it in the 1960's and it is time once again for musicians to step forward and carry the banner of peace and progress.
Please contact James D. Hansen Trent with any inquiries at (619) 818-9056 or at [email protected]
Ska is the musical ancestor of Reggae by way of an interim style of the big Jamaican beat known as Rocksteady. Ska crystallized as a genre in Jamaica around 1962, the same year that Jamaica gained sovereignty and self-governance, after more than 400 years of slavery under European occupation, first from the Spaniards from 1509-1655 and then the from the British from 1655 - 1962. (The British abolished slavery in 1834, however continued their rule of the colony until 1962.)
Ska has always been a revolutionary music, a people's music, music from the people of the countryside and the inner city alike, representing the needs and desires or everyman and everywoman. As Bob Marley sang along with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1964 when their Jamaican Ska group was called "the Wailers":
Got the news from a whispering tree This is the time when man must be free No more burden on our backs I want my freedom today
Get ready children
Didn't I build this country Didn't I plant the corn Didn't my people before me Slave for this country
And as the great Lord Tanamo sang:
Yes we must all try to live as one So if you c'yant give an 'elping hand, Come down off a ya pomps and pride
We look forward to hearing from YOU soon.