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Tommy McCook Memorial Mural on Wildfire Bakery early next week. In honour of a great Jamaican jazz/ska/rocksteady/reggae tenor saxaphonist
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| ENIGMATICA ENTERTAINMENT | As a reminder that the SKATALITES SHOW ON MONDAY, MAY 5TH/2003 @ LEGENDS is also in honour of the late great Tommy McCook, Sper from Studio Skuzzabot - IBC CREW will be painting a mural on Wildfire Bakery in his honour. The mural will be finished early next week. We encourage everyone to take a look at the mural as it represents our way of paying homage to Tommy McCook's and the Skatalites' legacy in the world of music. Proudly supported by: ENIGMATICA ENTERTAINMENT, CFUV 101.9FM'S Skankster's Paradise and FUSION ENTERTAINMENT - Sat, 26 Apr 2003 7:23pm | ||
| ENIGMATICA ENTERTAINMENT | His musical career begun like so many others, at the infamous Alpha Catholic School For Boys where he learned tenor saxophone, flute and music theory. He was a fine jazz musician who not only played with the dance bands of Eric Deans and Ray Coburn but also developed a deep love for the Rastafarian music of Count Ossie as a frequent visitor to grounations at Ossie's camp. He worked in the Bahamas throughout the late fifties in a dance band but returned to Jamaica in 1962 where he became involved in the development of ska and helped to form the legendary Skatalites in 1963. Their knowledge and shared background of jazz, R&B and Jamaican musical forms irrevocably altered the nature of Jamaican music, the effects of which are still being felt in current chart music. The Skatalites disbanded in 1965 and Tommy McCook formed the Supersonics who became Duke Reid's house band at Treasure Isle Studio on Bond Street where their mastery of that most potent and influential music - rocksteady - established Duke Reid's supremacy until the end of the decade. His career as a session musician continued up until the very end and he worked with every top producer and artist to ever record in Kingston. Flip over your favourite albums of the sixties and the seventies and it's odds on that Tommy McCook played on it somewhere ! - Sat, 26 Apr 2003 7:46pm | ||
| ENIGMATICA ENTERTAINMENT | The last post was taken from http://www.reggae-vibes.com - Sat, 26 Apr 2003 7:56pm | ||
| Anonymous | Thats awesome. He really didn't get the respect he deserved, most likely because he chose a path that wasn't jazz. Heaven forbid a horn player not playing old jazz songs - Sat, 26 Apr 2003 8:58pm | ||
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