Black Uhuru - Showcase LP

’Showcase’ shells seven early singles recorded between Black Uhuru’s formation in 1972 and up to 1978, when they had achieved international acclaim to a sound that would reverberate far beyond Jamaica to inspire everyone from disco dancers in NYC to London punks like PiL or The Clash.

Reissued on Sly & Robbie’s Taxi, which would soon after become incorporated to Island Records - where the drums & bass section would help define that decade with work for Grace Jones and on their own - the set spills over with foundational aces cascading from the heads-down skank of ‘Leaving to Zion’ thru the reggae disco-ready bop ‘Plastic Smile’, taking in the locked-down bluesy stepper ‘General Penitentiary’, the bubbling brilliance of ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’, the evergreen earworm of ’Shine Eye’, the effortlessly charming ‘Natural Reggae Beat’ benefitting from Sly & Robbie’s classic boops and Rose’s finest croon.