Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax, was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses, and a member of the Rastafari movement. He was born June 18, 1949 in Jonestown, next to Trenchtown, both parts of the slummy shanty town in the poor west side of inner Kingston, Jamaica and died of cancer in London on January 23, 1999 days after being diagnosed. He was noted for his high falsetto singing voice, very different from his spoken voice.
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The talented Jamaican musician and record producer Glen Adams, who has died aged 65 after suffering a stroke and kidney failure, was best known for his pioneering work as an organist. He recorded with Bob Marley and the Wailers, was an important part of New York's Caribbean music scene and helped define the new reggae sound of the late 1960s.
Adams's parents met in Curaçao, in the southern Caribbean. His father, a teacher, came from Saint Vincent. His mother returned to Jamaica alone two weeks before Glen was born. He was raised in Jones Town, a suburb of west Kingston, and attended the nearby Trench Town primary school. His mother was a milliner who also performed as a singer and dancer. She staged a concert for Adams's scout troupe in 1957, featuring the Jiving Juniors, which impressed him. His cousin played saxophone in Sonny Bradshaw's jazz group, who often rehearsed at Adams's house.
At the age of 12 he formed a harmony group with two schoolfriends but their audition at a local talent show, Vere Johns' Opportunity Hour, was unsuccessful. Returning as a solo act, Adams's performance at the Palace theatre in Kingston, broadcast live on radio, was so impressive that an agent soon obtained cabaret dates for him, opening for the Blues Busters.
In 1960, the Studio One founder, Clement Dodd, held a talent contest at the State theatre, at which Adams sang Wonder Thirst, written by his older sister Yvonne (who later recorded duets with Roy Panton and Derrick Morgan). Wonder Thirst became Adams's debut recording, which Dodd retained as an acetate for his sound system.
By 1962 Adams had formed a duo with Ken Boothe, providing harmony on the vocalist Stranger Cole's popular track Uno-Dos-Tres. The duo came second in the Festival Song competition in 1966 with I Remember, but were only sporadically active. Adams acted as an informal musical director for Duke Reid in this period, introducing the singer Joe White to Reid's stable, and arranging Margarita Mahfood's influential single Woman a Come.
While working as a tailor, he recorded Good Nanie and Shake It Up with the Pioneers in 1966, and introduced the Heptones, a group he co-founded, to Studio One. He then began recording as a solo singer, cutting Silent Lover and She (also known as I'm Shocking, I'm Electric) with the producer Bunny Lee in 1967, and providing harmony on the Uniques' Give Me a Love.
Adams began playing the organ in 1968, when Reid suggested him for a session with Lee, on which the bassist Aston "Family Man" Barrett and his drumming brother, Carlton, would also play. The result was Stranger Cole's Bangarang, which Lee insists is the first reggae record, due to Adams's chugging organ shuffle, which directly changed the predominant style.
With this session band now named the Hippy Boy, Adams backed the popular singer Max Romeo. The group then became better known as the Upsetters once they began recording for Lee "Scratch" Perry, with whom they toured Britain in 1969. Adams had already produced popular singles in Jamaica, such as the Reggae Boys' Selassie, and he co-produced the album The Good the Bad and the Upsetters in London after the tour. In 1970 Adams's inventive organ melodies brought greater texture to the landmark Bob Marley and the Wailers albums, Soul Rebels and Soul Revolution, produced by Perry. He co-wrote tracks including Mr Brown and helped develop the song Concrete Jungle.
Adams moved to New York in 1971, but returned to Jamaica frequently. He recorded the single Soul Syndicate in 1973 and later cut singles with Dennis Brown and Big Youth. Adams also recorded soca music (a hybrid blend of soul and calypso, pioneered in Trinidad and popular throughout the eastern Caribbean).
For the next six years, Adams drove a cab. He issued a few self-produced singles in 1981, and recorded Catch the Beat with the rapper T-Ski Valley (which was later sampled by Grandmaster Flash and Jennifer Lopez). He was hospitalised for a six-month period, due to the degenerative condition polymyositis, but subsequently worked on some of Shaggy's earliest recordings.
He is survived by his third wife, Judy; his son Kim, from his second marriage, to Veronica; and his granddaughter, Vicky. His son Francis, from his first marriage, to Ingrid, predeceased him.
• Glenroy Kinkead Adams Phillips (Glen Adams), keyboardist, singer-songwriter and producer, born 27 November 1945; died 18 December 2010
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/06/glen-adams-obituary
Tracklist
| 1 | Wolf And Leopard No Conscience by Dennis Brown, The Observers |
| 2 | The Russians Are Coming (Aka Take 5) by Bunny Lee, Val Bennett |
| 3 | The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Glen Adams |
| 4 | Reggae In The Wind by Lester Sterling |
| 5 | San by Prince Lincoln |
| 6 | Mr DJ by Jennifer Lara |
| 7 | My Girl by Glen Adams |
| 8 | Revolution Version by Musical Intimidator & Tapper Zukie |
| 9 | Materialist with Horace Andy by Lee Perry vs Niney the Observer |
| 10 | A Change Is Gonna Come by Jennifer Lara |
| 11 | Moving Away Version by Dennis Brown & The Observers |
| 12 | Stand By Me by Derrick Morgan |
| 13 | Lonely Girl by Glen Adams |
| 14 | Babylon Is Falling by Prince Lincoln & The Royal Rasses |
| 15 | Black Skin by Nigger Kojak And Lizza |
| 16 | Different Fashion by Tapper Zukie |
| 17 | I Man Feel It by Prince Lincoln & The Soul Rebels |
| 18 | I Second That Emotion by The Martinis |
| 19 | Mystery Babylon (Extended Mix) by The Heptones |
| 20 | Let The Music Play by Horace Andy |
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