Yard Movement
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| Released | 1996 | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Jazz, reggae | |||
| Label | Island Jamaica Jazz | |||
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Yard Movement is an album by the Jamaican American musician Monty Alexander, released in 1996.[1][2] Alexander supported the album with a UK tour that included Ernest Ranglin; Alexander also undertook a North American tour.[3][4] With Ranglin's Below the Baseline, Yard Movement was the first album from Island Records' Island Jamaica Jazz label.[5] The album peaked at No. 25 on the Official Jazz & Blues Albums Chart.[6] Alexander subsequently formed a band he named Yard Movement.[7]
Three songs were recorded at the 1995 Montreux Jazz Festival.[8] "Exodus" is a combination of the "Theme of Exodus" with Bob Marley's "Exodus".[8] Lennox "Boogsie" Sharpe played steelpan on "Crying".[9] "Regulator" was inspired by Nat Adderley's "Work Song".[9] Ernest Ranglin played lead guitar on Yard Movement.[10]
