Word: ska
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seven people wanted to get a ska band together," he begins. "They had this other kid...playing alto and it didn't really work out.... They got along, but musically it wasn't right, so I gave them my name and number...
Skavoovie's serendipitous arrival was the perfect channel. The younger ska audiences, unlike analytic jazz afficiandos, were receptive to the band's energy. And the fact that ska is still a burgeoning genre made the band's success possible...
...Skavoovie is the word that ska comes from, all right? Back in the late fifties and early sixties in Jamaica, there was a bassist called Cluet Johnson.... His greeting to people was hey mon, peace, love skavoovie. Instead of saying hey daddy-o, or what's up mon, he'd say that...
...things that defines ska is the offbeat. When [Johnson] was working with musicians and trying to get that sound, he's like 'No, no, no, I want you to play ska, ska, ska, ska, like skavoovie, ska, ska. That's where the word ska comes from, the sound that the guitars make on the offbeat...
...That's the offbeat, this is one and one and, like it's the 'and' of the beat. Ska is defined by the rhythm section...