Mar292024

Augustus Pablo

Horace Swaby (June 21, 1954 – May 18, 1999), better known as Augustus Pablo, the melodica king, was a Jamaican roots reggae and dub record producer and keyboardist, active from the 1970s onwards. He was perhaps the first person to use the melodica as a viable musical instrument. He was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica and learned to play the organ in Kingston College School. It was at that point an unnamed girl lent him the melodica. Fascinated by the instrument, Pablo rarely put it down. Read more on Last.fm

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# Title Plays
1King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
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2King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
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3Keep on Dubbing
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4East Of The River Nile
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5Stop Them Jah
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6Java
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7Young Generation Dub
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8Frozen Dub
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9Skanking Dub
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10Corner Crew Dub
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