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duke reid
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by Steve Huey Duke Reid was one of the founding fathers of the Jamaican music business, perhaps second in importance only to his chief rival, Clement Coxsone Dodd, both as a record producer and entrepreneur. Much like Dodd, Reid started his career in music as a DJ, then a sound system owner, then a label head (most notably of Trojan and Treasure Isle), then a highly accomplished producer who masterminded some of the greatest Jamaican music of the 60s. His career spanned the earliest days of ska to the rocksteady era, and on through the early 70s, when he helped lay the groundwork for the DJ，toaster era. In his prime, Reid cut a striking, flamboyant profile and was notorious for his tough-guy persona, the product of his previous career as a policeman. He usually carried a loaded revolver and ammunition belt, all prominently displayed, and sometimes a hand grenade or a machete for extra effect. His business tactics could be similarly hard-nosed, but Reid was no mere thug; his genuine skill as a producer remains the cornerstone of his legacy, in particular his work during rocksteadys heyday.Arthur S. Duke Reid was born in Portland, Jamaica, most likely in 1915. He moved to Kingston in his late teens and eventually took a job as a police officer, an occupation to which he devoted ten years of his life. He quit in order to help his wife run her successful grocery store. A longtime music lover, he started to attract more customers by playing records outside the shop - mostly American R he openly carried weapons, often wore a cape, and sometimes entered his gigs by having his associates carry him in.As his rivalry with Coxsone Dodd intensified, Reid made more and more trips to America to seek out obscure R gangs of toughs (or dancehall crashers) would sometimes start trouble at his competitors dances, hoping to get the party shut down by police (and maybe smash some equipment in the process). Yet Reid also had the music audiences wanted, and he won Jamaicas top sound-system battle three years running, from 1956-1958.As American R initially thought of as the exclusive property of the sound system they were cut for - became increasingly profitable once they were offered for sale to the general public. Reid, who had previously approached records as a secondary enterprise, shifted his focus to make them his top priority starting in 1962.From 1962-1965, Reids labels - Treasure Isle chief among them - issued numerous ska hits by the likes of the Skatalites, Stranger Cole, the Techniques, Justin Hinds at one point, four of U-Roys early singles hit the Jamaican Top Five all at once. Reid continued to record U-Roy through the early 70s, plundering his substantial back catalog for material, and also released records by other early DJs, most notably Dennis Alcapone. Unfortunately, Reid fell seriously ill in 1974; after suffering for the better part of a year, he passed away in 1975. Numerous retrospectives of his production work have since been issued on CD.
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| 地区 | 欧美 |
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| Alias | duke reid |
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| Name | duke reid |
| 原始名称 | Duke Reid |
| 名称 | duke reid |
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