It's little wonder The Skatalites album, Ska Boo-Da-Baa, is regarded as doing for ska what Miles Davis' A Kind of Blue did for jazz.
The legendary Jamaican group have the same mastery of their instruments, the same enthusiasm to experiment and the same free-flowing, energetic style of the best jazz musicians.
Where they differ, however, is that jazz usually makes me want to poke my own eyes out with boredom, while The Skatalites give off more fun vibes than a cannister of laughing gas exploding in a room full of Harry Hills.
Even though a third of the current line-up are well over pension age, the band kept the Komedia bouncing like pilled-up ping-pong balls for well over two hours with hits like Occupation and The Guns of Navarone.
The Krater Comedy Club might have been on downstairs, but I bet there were more, and wider, smiles upstairs at The Skatalites.
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