Cedric Im Brooks: Im Flash Forward (1977, Jamaica, 2nd Issue, SOL Matrix, VG) [STUDIO ONE]

Why you'll love it

This later Jamaican Studio One issue carries Sylvan Morris's engineering, and his own Reggae Workshop also sits in our Hall of Fame. Im Flash Forward is often called one of the greatest Jamaican instrumental albums.

This edition

• Studio One, catalogue 00330, Jamaica
• Later Jamaican issue of the 1977 album
• Condition: VG

About the album

Brooks learned clarinet at Alpha Boys School in Kingston and took up tenor sax and flute in his late teens. With the Rastafarian drummer Count Ossie he founded the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, where he was musical director and led the horns on the triple LP Grounation in 1973.

Im Flash Forward came out on Coxsone Dodd's Studio One in 1977. Brooks plays over Studio One rhythms from the early '70s, and Picture On The Wall is his sax take on Freddie McKay's song. Later pressings differ in running order, and some add two extra tracks.

Tracklist

On Studio One (cat# 00330), a reissue of the 1977 album.