◇ image via WikipediaRoland Alphonso
Roland Alphonso is a Ska act. Their sound grew out of Leslie Kong, Sonia Pottinger, Louis Prima, Lloyd Charmers and Coxsone Dodd. Those roots explain a lot about how Roland Alphonso arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Don Drummond, Derrick Morgan, Lord Tanamo, The Ethiopians and Owen Gray, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Bob Marley and The Skatalites, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Roland Alphonso, reaching back through Leslie Kong and forward to Bob Marley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Roland Alphonso grew out of Leslie Kong, Sonia Pottinger, Louis Prima and Lloyd Charmers, shares an orbit with Don Drummond, Derrick Morgan, Lord Tanamo and The Ethiopians, went on to shape Bob Marley and The Skatalites. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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