Man From Wareika Album

Man who know

Know Rico

Know music

Know man music

Know man beauty

Know Rico free

Refugee

Know man free

From Wareika hill.

Rico constant, free

Constant

Veteran free refugee

Trombone free

Natural man

From ever ska

Skitta ever

Up wareika

Jamaica

Born to reggae.

We are now presenting that great horns/instrumental album by the legendary Rico Rodriguez trombonist called man from wareika, which appears on several issues...note : this album has recently been re-released on the simply vinyl 180g label which is not included on this discography...

Musicians

Trombone – Rico

Drums – Sly Dunbar

Bass – Ras Robbie Shakespeare

Lead Guitar – Duggie Bryan, Karl Pitterson

Rhythm Guitar – Lloyd Parkes

Keyboards – Touter Harvey, Ansel Collins, Tarzan Nelson, Karl Pitterson

Wood Drum – Skully

Percussion – Karl Pitterson

Fussy Tambourine – Flick

Flugelhorn – Dick Cuthell

Trumpet – Viv Talent Hall, Bobby Ellis

Tenor Sax – Dirty Harry, George Lee

Alto Sax – Hermann Marquis, Ray Allen

Recorded at Joe Gibbs and Randy’s Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, Sept.1976

Engineers : Karl Pitterson, Errol Thomson, Dick Cuthell

Assisted by Flick

All tracks mixed at Island Basing Street Studios by Karl Pitterson and Dick Cuthell

Assisted by Kevin Dallimore

Produced by Karl Pitterson

Executive Co-ordination Leslie Teacher

Executive Producer – Chris Blackwell

Many thanks to Tommy and Colin for Lifelines and CB for breadtimes

All compositions and arrangements by Rico Rodriguez

Rico Poem and sleeve by Les, with thanks to Satch

Illustration by Tony Wright

Design by Eckford/Simpson

TOP RANKING (JA)

ILPS 9485

jamaican issue, but not repressed, taken from the same matrix than island issue...

probably issued between 1978 and 1980... has no cover...

note : has typographical errors on title : "man from warieki", "man from warieka"...

Side Two

1 Man from Wareika

2 Rasta

3 Over the Mountain

4 Gunga Din

5 Dial Africa

Two different pressings issued same year :

-one has golden letters on front : on back cover, the tracklist stands on the left part and the poem on the right part...

-the other one has black and golden letters on front : on back cover, the tracklist stands on left part for side one and on right part for side two and the poem is centered...Has been also early reissued on the blue island label...

BLUE NOTE (US) 1977

BN-LA819-H

American issue on the famous jazz label...

same cover than island issue, liner notes in white instead of gold...

GHETTO ROCKERS (UK)

PRE-LP-1

UK original pressing for the dub versions of man from wareika album...probably an unauthorized issue... has been reissued in the 90's on a bootleg blank italian issue...

GHETTO ROCKERS (UK)

PRE-1

This single is the vocal version to Rico's "africa" by Ijahman...never released elsewhere...

Personnal on Africa : The Ghetto Rockers

Trombone - Rico

Drums – Jacko

Bass – Bunny Mc Kenzie

Lead Guitar – Junior Hanson Marvin

Rhythm Guitar – Phillip Chen

Keyboards – Tony Washington

Percussion – Tony Utah, Satch Dixon

Backing Vocals – Ijahman, Candy Mc Kenzie

Trumpet – Eddie Thornton

Tenor Sax – Keith Gemmel

Recorded at Island Hammersmith Studios May 1976

Related Disco 45's and Singles taken from the Album

ISLAND (IPR 2002) Rico - Dial Africa (recorded live at the Rainbow) // Dial Africa (Dub) Prod. by K.Pitterson 1977

ISLAND (IPR 2006) Rico - Ramble // Rico - Ska Wars Produced by Karl Pitterson / Staff 1977

ISLAND (WIP 6399) Rico - Africa // Afro Dub Produced by K. Pitterson 1977