Jump and Wave

Recorded for the 1994 album Soca Butterfly, with sessions at Dynamic Sounds, Platinum in Atlanta, and Unique Studios. Byron Lee is credited as producer on the release. The track sat on Soca Butterfly, a 1994 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires album issued on Dynamic Sounds that positioned the band squarely in the mid-1990s soca and carnival circuit. Its title and placement made it one of the record’s clearest jump-and-wave anthems. The song remained part of the band’s carnival-era catalogue and appears in later references to jump-and-wave soca, a performance style still central to Caribbean carnival music. The phrase and dance style continued to circulate in later soca writing and programming.