Toots The Maytals | ru
- Born : Brussels, Belgium 1922
Immigrated : USA 1952
- Played accordion at age 3
- Started playing harmonica as a hobby
- First guitar won on a bet
- "Hooked" on Jazz during German occupation
- First idol : Django Reinhardt
- Early influence : Charlie Parker
- Nicknamed "Toots" after musicians Toots Mondello
and Toots Camarata
- First international break through : Joining Benny Goodman
on European concert tour in 1950
- Early US jobs : member of Charlie Parker's All Stars in Philadelphia;
George Shearing Quintet; ...
- Composed "Bluesette", 1962
- Originated new sound :...
Toots and the Maytals, изначально называвшиеся просто The Maytals, настоящие легенды ска и реггей музыки. Их звучание уникально, неподражаемая смесь из госпела, ска, соула, реггей и рока. Фредерик "Зуб" Хиббердт (Frederick "Toots" Hibbert), лидер группы, родился в приходе Clarendon, городка May Pen, Ямайка. Он был самым младшим среди семи детей. В детстве он пел госпел в церковном хоре, но в 1961 году, в возрасте шестнадцати лет переехал в Кингстон.
В Кингстоне, Хиббердт встретил Генри "Raleigh" Гордона (Henry "Raleigh" Gordon) и Натанаэля МакКаррти(Nathaniel "Jerry" McCarthy) и создал группу, ассоциирующуюся с "The Flames" и, возможно, "The Vikings". Переименовавшись в the Maytals, трио...
Toots Hibbert (born Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, 10 December 1945, May Pen, Parish of Clarendon, Jamaica) is a ska and roots reggae singer and leader of the reggae band Toots and the Maytals.
As the youngest of seven children, he grew up singing gospel music in a church choir, but went to Kingston when he was a teenager in the early 1960s. In Kingston he met Raleigh Gordon and Jerry Matthias, and they formed The Maytals. The Maytals became one of the most popular vocal groups in Jamaica in the 1960s, recording with producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster, Byron Lee and...
A foot stompin', horn honkin', go-go dancing, psychedelic freak-out. Five members on record, nine on stage. The Toots' live shows are a haphazard spectacle filled with sweat, glitter and trumpets. A garage, country, big band bonanza whose songs tell ol' tales of rural Australian misfits. .
Bam Bam
Do the Reggay
Reggae Got Soul
54-46 Was My Number
Pressure Drop
Monkey Man
Blame On Me
Funky Kingston
Hold On
54-46 Thats my Number
Pressure Drop
54-46 Was My Number
54-46 Was My Number
Sweet and Dandy
If You Act This Way
54-46 Was My Number
Monkey Man
Never Grow Old
Love Gonna Walk Out On Me
Time Tough
Careless Ethiopians
Take A Trip
Bam Bam
True Love Is Hard To Find
Time Tough
Intro Country Roads
54-46 Was My Number
Let Down
Pressure Drop
Judge and the Corporal
Funky Kingston
Happy Days
Bam Bam
Country Roads (1973 Jamaican Ska)
Pressure Drop
54-46 Was My Number (Live)
Reggae Got Soul
Peter James and John
Reggae Got Soul
Our Father
Do You Believe
Hard to Handle (Stickybuds Remix)
Pressure Drop
Pressure Drop
Toots Rock the Reggae
World Is Turning
Rasta Man
54-46 Was My Number (With Jeff
Eye for an Eye
Spirit
