This story is one about "coincidence" or maybe about the fact that there is not such thing. In may 2008 I bought a stack of
reggae records from a private collector up North in Groningen. While checking them out I bumped into an album I didn`t know.
It was "Seat up" by R. Zee Jackson. The sleeve looked interesting and
I never saw the label before. So I give it one spin and put it aside to listen
to it more carefully before deciding to add it to my collection.
In july of
that same year I spend time with my family in Jamaica. On Reggae Beach near
Ocho Rios I met a very friendly grey bearded Rasta man. He introduced himself
to me as Castro Pink. We chat about reggae and he told me about his production
work and so on. At one point he gave me his business card. The card said:
"Esso Jaxxon, stage name; R. Zee Jackson". I was very surprised and I
told him about his album that I found the other day. He told me the story
behind the album. How they were booked as a backing band for a Jamaican artist
(can`t remember who it was, I thought Alton Ellis) on his Canadian and American tour. But there
was delay because of visa problems and they killed time by recording the tracks
for the album. And that was how it came out in 1980. And that`s how this album
ended up in my collection. Musically it`s a solid roots album, check it out.
Flying D
