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Zap Pow

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Zap Pow, formed in 1969 by singer-bassist Michael "Mikey Zappow" Williams and guitarist Dwight Pinkney with Alpha Boys School horn players David Madden and Glen DaCosta, were Jamaica's most jazz-inflected horn-forward reggae band, scoring with "This Is Reggae Music" and, after Beres Hammond joined as lead singer in 1975, "The System" (1978).

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Story · Well supportedFrom Alpha horns to the studio session

A reform school on South Camp Road quietly supplied the horn section for most of reggae's biggest records.