This 3CD selection of US jump/shuffle blues recordings will be of equal interest to both Jamaican music fans and connoisseurs of classic US rhythm & blues.......It is the 4th in a series of early classics that were popular with the DJ'S in the early days and include well known & hard to find jumpers.......  Over the last twelve months the compiler has been busy researching what records were favoured by the Jamaican sound systems. This is no easy matter, considering that many had their labels scratched out and were retitled by DJs keen to preserve their exclusives , meaning that they were known on the island by their sound system titles. This is the music that provided the inspiration for Ska and all that followed...............