There’s lots of musicians that are called legends but Jerry Dammers (The Specials, Special AKA) and Rico Rodriguez (Jamaican Ska trombonist) are the real deal!
Much of the audience at Poole’s Lighthouse where a little unsure of what to expect from Jerry Dammers’ Spatial AKA Orchestra, a 20-odd piece ensemble playing a fusion of Ska & Jazz while paying homage to Sun Ra – an eclectic, unorthodox jazz musician whose career spanned the 50′s to the 90′s.
Dammers also threw in a couple of reworkings of his own back catalogue, notably ‘Ghost Town’ and ‘International Jet Set’ – now renamed ‘Intergalactic Jet Set’.
This was the perfect progression from 2Tone, growing from maturity and outside influences and you could see at once why the idea of a Specials reunion without a reworking of the songs was never going to work for Jerry Dammers.
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