Western Standard Time - Studio Promo

Western Standard Time - Big Band Tribute to the Skatalites June 27th, 1964, the Hi Hat Club, Rae Town Jamaica - On a balmy tropical night a group of Jamaican jazz musicians are about to have a massive impact that will inspire millions of people, several generations and waves of artists who will play the rhythmic and melodic invention they all had a hand in two years earlier: Ska. That night, they called themselves the Skatalites and on that stage, with their infectious rhythms and jazzy instrumentation, they would light the match that set the fire of inspiration for all Rocksteady and Reggae artists, Rock influenced Reggae, The British Two-Tone movement, The Third Wave movement and what some call the most authentic Ska movement since the Skatalites: The L.A. Ska Scene. What is it about Los Angeles that incubates such proficient, authentic and passionate Ska artistry? Is it the ghosts of the Central Avenue Jazz era, the influences of the Whittier Boulevard brown-eyed soul movement, or the