Jump With Joey

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Joey Altruda is an American musician, composer, producer and bandleader from Los Angeles. California. His involvement in the L.A. music scene began in 1981 as a founding member of the post-punk experimental group Tupelo Chain Sex which featured blues violinist Don “Sugarcane” Harris. In 1989, with the help of drummer Willie McNeil, he created the band Jump With Joey, performing American Jump Swing music and early forms of Jamaican Ska. The group became a keystone in the revival of traditional Jamaican Ska, Rocksteady, and Reggae, recording 4 CDs and performing several times in Japan and New York. During the early to mid nineties, the band broke new musical barriers by introducing heavier elements of Afro-Cuban and Jazz into the Ska idiom and gained further notoriety for backing pioneering Jamaican musicians such as Roland Alphonso, Laurel Aitken, Ernest Ranglin, Rico Rodriguez, Ken Lazarus et al. In 2006 Altruda was awarded a lifetime achievement award for the Preservation Of Jamaican Music and Culture. Since age six, Altruda has been an avid record collector, holding a wide interest in genres including Americana (i.e. Jazz, Blues, Country, Rockabilly, etc), Afro-Cuban, Jamaican, Brazilian, Exotica, Novelty etc. Throughout his musical trajectory thus far, the music he collects has always pushed him forward into learning how to perform and create in these various idioms. In the past 35 years he has worked with a wide spectrum of artists including Seu Jorge, Screamin’ Jay

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Generations United

Swingin' Ska Goes South Of The Border

Ska-Ba

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Swingin' Ska Goes South of Th' Border

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California Ska Quake Vol 1

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Strictly For You Vol. 2

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Generations United, Volume 1

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Come...

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Swingin' Ska Goes South Of The' Border

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Strictly For You, Vol. Two

Step On It: The Best Of The Ska Parade Radio Show

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California Ska Quake

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