If it rains, it pours here in AMS. So the sunny sounds of Jim Murple Memorial are greatly appreciated! This all-white band from Montreuil make rhythm 'n blues and bluebeat like they did in the late fifties/early sixties on Jamaice. Their female singer is called Nanou. They sound very convincing, like they're the bastard children of The Skatalites. Real R&B was, as you might know, the basis for reggae, rocksteady and ska - back in the fifties and sixties the first soundsystems played this music, and radio's picked up the stronger southern Louisiana radiostations. So far, JMM made six albums, Put Things Right was released in May. They do covers (mostly sixties soul) and play their own song, some in French. Music like JMM's can't be heard on Jamaica nowadays (at least, that's what people tell me), the best rootsreggaebands are European, and mostly Caucasian. Funny, eh. But hey, I'm not complaining, I just turn up the volume. Oh, and just who is this Jim Murple that's being memorialized via this band, you ask? Story goes he was a musician from New Orleans who moved to Paris, met some local musicians who he taught everything he knows. And for that he will forever be remembered.
Jim Murple Memorial - Du bout dès levres
Jim Murple Memorial - Pour Être Heureux
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