The Baba Brooks Band

  • Listeners

    14.1K

  • Scrobbles

    50.5K

  • Listeners

    14.1K

  • Scrobbles

    50.5K

  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this artist

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Oswald Baba Brooks started his musical career as a trumpet player with the Eric Dean Orchestra in Jamaica in the 1950's. The Jamaican bands played mostly Folk, Afro, Jazz, they played at clubs, big hotels and sometimes on local radio. This was an exciting scene at the time but began to die out towards the end of the fifties. Band members began to move into the recording studios in Kingston that were emerging at the time with the advent of the Sound System. The records that were produced kept the musicians well employed. Most big bands began to die out and only a few managed to … read more
Oswald Baba Brooks started his musical career as a trumpet player with the Eric Dean Orchestra in Jamaica in the 1950's. The Jamaican bands played mostly Folk, Afro, Jazz, they played at clubs, big hotels and sometimes on local radio. This was an exciting scene at the time but began to d… read more
Oswald Baba Brooks started his musical career as a trumpet player with the Eric Dean Orchestra in Jamaica in the 1950's. The Jamaican bands played mostly Folk, Afro, Jazz, they played at clubs, big hotels and sometimes on local radio. This was an exciting scene at the time but began to die out towards the end of the fifties. Band members began to move into t… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for Frank Anderson

  2. Avatar for Lyn Taitt

  3. Avatar for Owen & Leon Silveras
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Play track The Best Of The Skatalites Teenage Ska
  • Loading
 16 listeners
2 Play track Trojan Ska Collection Watermelon Man
  • Loading
 10 listeners
3 Play track The Best Of The Skatalites Girls Town Ska
  • Loading
 8 listeners
4 The Best Of The Skatalites Guns Fever
  • Loading
 4 listeners
5 The Best Of The Skatalites Vitamin A
  • Loading
 2 listeners
6 The Trojan Story One Eyed Giant
  • Loading
 2 listeners
7 River Bank River Bank
  • Loading
 2 listeners
8 The Trojan Story Ska Virginia (Virginia Ska)
  • Loading
 1 listener
9 Play track Ska's The Limit 1959-1964, Vol.1 Bank To Bank - Part 1
  • Loading
 1 listener
10 Joe Snow Kone - Take 1 Joe Snow Kone - Take 1
  • Loading
 1 listener

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 26 listeners

    19 Oct 2018 · 1 track

    Twilight Zone
    • Loading

  2. 1 listener

    19 Oct 2018 · 1 track

    Twilight Zone - Single
    • Loading

  3. 0 listeners

    Every Night
    • Loading

  4. 0 listeners

    1966 · 2 tracks

    Nightmare
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
12
8
8
15
7
9
9
9
9
8
9
4
6
7
5
8
4
8
8
7
4
3
7
4
13
5
11
14
7
5
8
7
10
6
5
5
4
6
9
10
8
5
8
7
7
4
4
6
10
11
7
7
8
8
7
8
10
7
5
8
9
10
10
2
11
7
6
7
7
11
16
15
13
9
8
7
4
6
8
8
9
7
5
6
0
11
3
1
4
4
6
10
15
12
9
8
3
3
7
5
6
3
10
9
10
11
5
7
1
10
5
7
7
6
7
11
6
8
5
3
8
19
12
7
8
8
5
2
11
6
1
8
8
5
8
7
6
6
11
4
6
6
11
7
8
5
4
5
4
6
9
7
4
2
7
3
10
8
6
6
13
7
8
5
4
9
3
5
4
5
14
11
5
7
4
12
4
3
4
7

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Similar Artists

  1. 6,618 listeners

    Avatar for Frank Anderson

  2. 7,046 listeners

    Avatar for Lyn Taitt

  3. 12,878 listeners

    Avatar for Owen & Leon Silveras

  4. 13,778 listeners

    Avatar for Lynn Taitt

  5. 9,946 listeners

    Avatar for The Spanishtonians

  6. 13,738 listeners

    Avatar for Baba Brooks & His Band

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

API Calls

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss