A few straight up facts about this 7x7 inch (exactly the size of a 45 single in its sleeve), one hundred and fifty two page thick soft cover book (the thickness of my pinkie finger.) It is simply the most massive book of it size. So heavy are the contents that it is like trying to move a mountain every time I pick it up to read.
And read it you will. You’ll find yourself casually skimming through it. But mostly you will find yourself deep in research. It is picture packed and full of facts.
It tells the story of a Prince behind the mixing console in the studio of his boss and mentor KING TUBBY. Once this prince left the security of his former employer he re-emerged newly crowned as KING JAMMY. He ruled the 80’s decade, from a humble home studio in the Kingdom known as WATERHOUSE. This neighborhood was just one among many impoverished parishes in and around the capitol city of KINGSTON.
The world may know of TRENCHTOWN through the words of the late reggae ambassador ROBERT NESTA MARLEY but this WATERHOUSE parish can boast of having more talent per square inch than any place on EARTH except maybe the renaissance of HARLEM in the 1920’s.
All the game changing names passed through his studio doors. The singers, the players of instruments and young mixers that became the next generation masters of sound. JAMMY'S was as much an incubator as it was a music studio...it gave birth to the new digital RIDDIM.
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