Lynn Taitt & The Jets

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Lynn Taitt (Nerlynn Taitt, San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, 22 June 1934 – 20 January 2010) was a guitarist closely associated with Jamaican rocksteady music. Lynn Taitt got his start as a musician playing in local Trinidadian steel drum bands, before taking up the guitar aged 14. He formed his own band, which was booked by Byron Lee to perform at the 1962 independence celebrations in Jamaica. Taitt decided to stay in Jamaica, living in Kingston, and played in a number of bands including The Sheiks, The Cavaliers, and The Comets, and worked with Baba Brooks, The Skatalites and Tommy McCook and the Supersonics. The most successful of his groups was The Jets, formed in 1966 and which included Hux Brown, Headley Bennett, Hopeton Lewis, Gladstone Anderson, and Winston Wright. Taitt's guitar style was inventive and unconventional, with a sharp percussive sound that accented the rocksteady beat. Lynn Taitt and the Jets played on hundreds of recording sessions for Jamaican producers such as Bunny Lee, Duke Reid, Joe Gibbs, Coxsone Dodd, and Sonia Pottinger, often performing up to five sessions a day. Their recording of "Take It Easy" was one of the first rocksteady singles and it reached number one in the Jamaican singles chart. Taitt's contribution to Jamaican popular music includes his role as arranger and session leader for many of the recordings that he appeared on. He has been credited as having created the first rocksteady bassline, on the song "Take It Easy" by Hopeton L

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Rock Steady Greatest Hits

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Trojan Sixties Box Set

Let's Do Rocksteady: The Story Of Rocksteady 1966-68

Trojan Rocksteady Collection

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The Trojan: Rocksteady Collection

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Island Presents: Rock Steady

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Sounds Rock Steady

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Trojan Instrumentals Box Set

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Bat Man / Joker

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You & Me Presents: Merritone

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60s Hits Reggae Style

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Merritone Rocksteady 1966 to 1968 - 10 Rare Singles Set Pt. 1

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