Count Ossie, born Oswald Williams (26 March 1926 – 18 October 1976), was a Jamaican Rastafari drummer and band leader. In the early 1950s, he set up a...

Count Ossie, releasing tracks such as "So Long Rastafari Calling", "Black is Black", and "Give Me Back My Language and Culture" as Im and Count Ossie...

of music, known as ska. Niyabinghi rhythms were largely a creation of Count Ossie, who incorporated influences from traditional Jamaican Kumina drumming...

and songwriter Count Matchuki (c. 1929 – 1995), Jamaican deejay Count Ossie (1926–1976), Jamaican Rastafari drummer and band leader Count Prince Miller...

music, especially the Nyabinghi drumming, and Jamaican popular music. Count Ossie was a notable pioneer of the drumming style in popular music and it continues...

Buddz Ansell Collins Common Kings The Congos Hollie Cook Joseph Cotton Count Ossie Tommy Cowan Culcha Candela Cultura Profética Culture Yvonne Curtis Daab...

jazz and rhythm and blues. The first ever ska recording was made by Count Ossie, a Nyabinghi drummer from the rasta community. It is characterized by...

music that was perhaps best expressed by artists along the lines of Count Ossie and Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus.” The album contains original material...

bouncer for Duke Reid) approached the legendary Rastafarian percussionist Count Ossie, who had established one of the first Rastafarian camps in Wareika Hill...

"Worldisc, 1959), Clue J & His Blues Blasters ("Silky", Coxsone 1960), Count Ossie & the Wareikas ("African Shuffle", Moodies, circa 1960) and on Bob Marley's...

relented and Mahfood performed with Count Ossie and his band. The performance ended up being the first that Count Ossie and his band ever had in front of...

of music, known as ska. Niyabinghi rhythms were largely a creation of Count Ossie, who incorporated influences from traditional Jamaican Kumina drumming...

Jimmy Cliff Cocoa Tea Colle´ Kharis The Congos Count Ossie Cultura Profética Culture Ronnie Davis Ossie Dellimore Desmond Dekker Dezarie Dillinger Dr Alimantado...

7"-side: Modisc FHM 101-B /US, 2000s Rico & Count Ossie: "Count Ossie Special" - released as: Count Ossie Special (7"-side: Moodisc Pre FXM 105 /JA);...

arranged and released by Dennis Brown in 1979-also check out SO LONG-Count Ossie-1973) "Take a Sip" "The Lion of Judah" / "The Conquering Lion" (arranged...

It was one of many Rasta camps to the east of Kingston, including Count Ossie's, which had a different character from those in the west of the city...

group to play on a recording session, and brought Count Ossie and his group of drummers (Count Ossie's Afro-Combo) back to the studio, where they played...

played congas with Carlos Malcolm's band, Toots and the Maytals and the Count Ossie Band. He plays a wide variety of traditional percussion instruments....

Bells label. The drumming on the record was provided by members of the Count Ossie Group, nyabinghi drummers from the Rastafarian community, Camp David...

has been the site of a residence and later a Rastafarian commune of Count Ossie. Nyabinghi drummers from his Camp David commune have been featured on...

Rastafarian and was closely associated musically to the rasta drummer Count Ossie. In 1961 Rodriguez moved to the UK, where he joined live bands such as...

Being – The Acid Documents SJR325 Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari – Tales of Mozambique SJR331 Count Ossie & The Rasta Family – Man From...

connection between Rastafari and ska were the musicians Count Ossie and Don Drummond. Ossie was a drummer who believed that black people needed to develop...

personality Tami Chynn, singer-songwriter Jimmy Cliff, singer, reggae musician Count Ossie, Rastafari drummer and band leader Patricia Cumper, producer, director...

movement was a significant influence on reggae, with Rasta drummers like Count Ossie taking part in seminal recordings. One of the predecessors of reggae...

the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, the group of drummers founded by Count Ossie and which played on the internationally renowned hit "Oh Carolina," the...

chant, pray, and sing in the home of a Rasta or a community center. Count Ossie, a Rastafarian drum player revealed various rhythmic patterns after noticing...

Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna and cardinal within the Roman Catholic Church. Count Ossie (stage name for Oswald Williams), 50, Jamaican band leader and Rastafari...

records; His first production was "Babylon Gone" (1962) by rasta drummer Count Ossie and saxophonist Wilton Gaynair, released in the UK in 1962 on Blue Beat...

Boys School. He played and recorded with various musicians including Count Ossie. Gaynair married and moved to Canada. His older brother Wilton Gaynair...