Jayson Nugent is a guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist and DJ from New York who plays in the style of several Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n music genre

Music genre

A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music...

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Nugent's experiments with ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

, reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

, dub music

Dub music

Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...

, and skinhead reggae came to be noticed through his work with Version City

Version City

Version City is an American reggae record label and recording studio.Since its inception in New York City 1997 by local ska veteran King Django, it has changed its location to its current home in New Brunswick, New Jersey...

 and Stubborn Records. Since 1997, Nugent has been a staple in the New York City

New York City

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 ska community, playing backup for King Django

King Django

Jeff Baker, better known as King Django, is a New Brunswick, NJ-based ska musician. He was the leader of Skinnerbox and Stubborn All-Stars....

, trading dub masters with Victor Rice

Victor Rice

Victor Rice is a musician and producer from New York City. He is most noted for his work within the third wave ska genre of the 1990s through the early 2000s, as both a bassist and as a producer....

, and playing in The Slackers

The Slackers

The Slackers are a New York City band, formed in Brooklyn in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz...

. Other bands that featured Nugent's guitar work in the 1990s include: Agent 99, Stubborn All-Stars

Stubborn All-Stars

Stubborn All-Stars are a New York City ska band led by King Django, front man of Skinnerbox and owner of Stubborn Records.By early 1994, Django's original ska roots began to tug at him, and he assembled Stubborn All-Stars for a studio session which resulted in the 4-song Old's Cool 7" EP...

, Da Whole Thing, and Version City Rockers

Version City

Version City is an American reggae record label and recording studio.Since its inception in New York City 1997 by local ska veteran King Django, it has changed its location to its current home in New Brunswick, New Jersey...

. In 2007, Nugent released the Crazy Baldhead Has a Posse CD, which he produced over a 10-year period, with guest musicians featured in every song.

Crazy Baldhead released "the Sound of '69" in the fall of 2008. This album features re-interpretations of pop hits from 1969 in the style of Jamaican music of the time - that is, the raw, funk-influenced early reggae championed by producers such as Lee "Scratch" Perry and Harry J.

Discography

• Agent 99 - Agent 99 Cassette EP/Demo (1994)
• Agent 99 - The Biggest Boy 7" (1995)
• Stubborn All-Stars - Open Season (1995)
• Stubborn All-Stars - "Back With A New Batch (1997
• Stubborn Records Presents: Version City (1997)
• Agent 99 - Little Pieces: 1993-1995 (1998)
• Rocker T and Version City Rockers - Nicer By The Hour (1998)
• New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble - Get This! (1998)
• Stubborn All-Stars - Nex Music (1999)
• Victor Rice - At Version City (2000)
• Stubborn All-Stars - At Version City (2001)
• Version City - Dub Clash (2001)
• Crazy Baldhead - Long Road/California 10" (2003)
• Crazy Baldhead - Has A Posse 1997-2004 (Stubborn, 2004)
• The Slackers - Peculiar
  Peculiar (album)
  Peculiar is an album by the New York City ska band The Slackers. It was released on Hellcat Records in 2006.-Track listing:# "86 the Mayo" – 4:23# "Peculiar" – 4:08# "Propaganda" – 4:31...
  
  (2006)
• The Slackers - The Boss Harmony Sessions (2007)
• The Slackers - Minha Menina 7" (2007)
• The Slackers - Self Medication (2008)
• Crazy Baldhead - The Sound Of '69 (2008)
• The Slackers - Lost & Found (2009)
• The Slackers - Dreidel 7" (2009)
• The Slackers - NYC Boat Cruise 2009 (digital only, 2009)
• The Slackers - Slackfest NYC 2009 (digital only, 2009)
• The Slackers - Holiday Party With... (digital only, 2009)
• The Slackers - Live On the West Side 4/6/10 (digital only, 2010)
• The Slackers - The Great Rocksteady Swindle (2010)
• The Slackers - New Years Day 7" (2010)
• Crazy Baldhead - Too Much Technology 7" (Urban Pirate, 2010)
• Crazy Baldhead - The Reggae Will Not Be Televised (2010)
• The Slackers - Live In San Francisco 12/31/10 (digital only, 2011)
• The Slackers - Stash Box (2011)