The Revolutionaries

The Revolutionaries (sometimes known as "Revolutionaires") was a Jamaican reggae band.

Career

The Revolutionaries were formed in 1975 as the house band at Channel One Studios, operated by the Hoo Kim brothers. The group developed from Skin, Flesh and Bone, a band that had performed at Kingston's Tit for Tat Club, with Sly Dunbar on drums and Bertram "Ranchie" McLean on bass. At Channel One, Dunbar began working with Robbie Shakespeare, who had previously played bass for Bunny Lee's Aggrovators.

The band's personnel varied and included guitarists JoJo Hookim, McLean, and Radcliffe "Dougie" Bryan; keyboardists Ossie Hibbert, Errol "Tarzan" Nelson, Robbie Lyn, and Ansel Collins; percussionists Uziah "Sticky" Thompson and Noel "Scully" Simms; saxophonists Tommy McCook and Herman Marquis; trumpeter Bobby Ellis; and trombonist Vin Gordon.

In 1976, The Revolutionaries attained further respect from the Sound System and dub fraternity when they recorded a track named after author Alex Haley's character, Kunta Kinte, which would become one of reggae music's most recognisable riddims and which for many years was only played by selected sound systems on dubplate. The track Kunta Kinte was...

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