Photo © Shaun Roberts - flickr.com/photos/shaunroberts Just another plug for the Sylvan Morris article that I put up a couple days ago. Also, for anyone reading this who might be interested in this type of content but find yourself turned off by the angelfire sites with gifs of shiny Jamaican flags and floating spliffs that rotate I point you to Large Up.  A great Jamaican music and culture site with a broad range of quality content updated regularly.  If you ever read any of the Dancehall features in Fader magazine you’ll recognize Eddie ‘Stats’ Houghton’s pieces. largeup.okayplayer.com.
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Photo © Shaun Roberts - flickr.com/photos/shaunroberts

Just another plug for the Sylvan Morris article that I put up a couple days ago.

Also, for anyone reading this who might be interested in this type of content but find yourself turned off by the angelfire sites with gifs of shiny Jamaican flags and floating spliffs that rotate I point you to Large Up.  A great Jamaican music and culture site with a broad range of quality content updated regularly.  If you ever read any of the Dancehall features in Fader magazine you’ll recognize Eddie ‘Stats’ Houghton’s pieces.

largeup.okayplayer.com.

Sylvan Morris at Dynamic Sounds. 15 Bell Road. Kingston, Jamaica. Interview: Shivu Rao, Sean StewartAll Photos © Shaun Roberts - flickr.com/photos/shaunroberts Props to Shivu Rao for recognizing Sylvan Morris in the parking lot of Dynamic Sounds and sparking the conversation that would lead to the interview. Sylvan Morris worked as a recording and mixing engineer at the forefront of the development of Jamaican music in the 1960s and 1970s. Equipped with a pitch perfect ear, a naturally inventive spirit, a hands-on approach and an intense work ethic Morris not only managed to create a sound of his own, but also was highly sought after by the musicians of the era, to whom he was affectionately known as ‘My Operator.’ Over the course of a quarter century Morris worked closely with such luminaries as Bob Marley and the Wailers, Jacob Miller, The Heptones, U-Roy, Augustus Pablo, Alton Ellis, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and many more. Read More
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Sylvan Morris at Dynamic Sounds. 15 Bell Road. Kingston, Jamaica.

Interview: Shivu Rao, Sean Stewart
All Photos © Shaun Roberts - flickr.com/photos/shaunroberts
Props to Shivu Rao for recognizing Sylvan Morris in the parking lot of Dynamic Sounds and sparking the conversation that would lead to the interview.

Sylvan Morris worked as a recording and mixing engineer at the forefront of the development of Jamaican music in the 1960s and 1970s. Equipped with a pitch perfect ear, a naturally inventive spirit, a hands-on approach and an intense work ethic Morris not only managed to create a sound of his own, but also was highly sought after by the musicians of the era, to whom he was affectionately known as ‘My Operator.’ Over the course of a quarter century Morris worked closely with such luminaries as Bob Marley and the Wailers, Jacob Miller, The Heptones, U-Roy, Augustus Pablo, Alton Ellis, Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and many more.

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