Band Name: Tommy McCook
Music Album: Real Cool: The Jamaican King Of The Saxophone '66-'77
Album Release Date: November 2024
Music Genre: Reggae Dub Ska Rocksteady
Record Label: Trojan Records
Album Release Country: United Kingdom
Music Record Type: 49 Tracks CD
3 March 1927 – 5 May 1998
Founding member of The Skatalites and The Supersonics. Very important jamaican saxophone player.
He was born in Havana, Cuba. When his father worked at Panama Canal, the familly moved to Jamaica in 1933. He went to Alpha School, which gave him a good musical eduction. His career started in 1943 when he performed in Eric Dean Orchestra, one of the best at that time on the whole island. Then he switched to Don Hitchman's sextet. This band was one of the first jamaican Bands ever got recorded (1952/1953). This happened at the first radio station in Jamaica, Z or Zed QI. In the early fifties, Tommy was a soloist in the greatest band to coalesce in Jamaica before The Skatalites, Roy Coburn's Blu-Flames featuring Don Drummond, Cluett Johnson and Ken Williams (6). In 1954 he moved to Nassau, Barbados to play gigs in Clubs next to Ernest Ranglin. 1956 he moved to Miami, Florida where he first got into contact with Jazz music. He was heavily influenced by (...)
| 1-1 | Out Of Space |
| 1-2 | Ska Jam |
| 1-3 | Riverton City |
| 1-4 | A Little Bit Of Heaven |
| 1-5 | Inez |
| 1-6 | Persian Cat Ska (Aka Once In A Persian Market Place) |
| 1-7 | Spanish Eyes |
| 1-8 | Indian Love Call |
| 1-9 | One, Two, Three, Kick |
| 1-10 | Continental |
| 1-11 | Caltone Special |
| 1-12 | Tommy's Rocksteady (Aka Comet Rocksteady) |
| 1-13 | Real Cool |
| 1-14 | The Shadow Of Your Smile |
| 1-15 | Soul Serenade |
| 1-16 | Sweet Lorna |
| 1-17 | Music Is My Occupation |
| 1-18 | Our Man Flint |
| 1-19 | Mad, Mad, Mad |
| 1-20 | Heatwave (Aka Moving) |
| 1-21 | Flying Home |
| 1-22 | Second Fiddle |
| 1-23 | Ode To Billie Joe |
| 1-24 | Ranglin On Bond Street |
| 1-25 | Progressive Reggay |
| 1-26 | Black River |
| 2-1 | Wailing (Aka Mabrouk) |
| 2-2 | Stupid Doctor |
| 2-3 | Psalm 9 To Keep In Mind |
| 2-4 | More Music |
| 2-5 | Bad Cow Skank |
| 2-6 | Green Mango |
| 2-7 | The Great Tommy McCook |
| 2-8 | The Watergate Affair |
| 2-9 | The Right Track |
| 2-10 | Cloak And Dagger |
| 2-11 | Move Out |
| 2-12 | A Dancing Dub (A Dancing Version) |
| 2-13 | A Version I Can Feel With Love |
| 2-14 | Bub The Duke (Aka The Duke Of Earl Dub) |
| 2-15 | Behold Dis Ya Dub Of Class |
| 2-16 | Rock By Sir Dee's Scorcher |
| 2-17 | La Paloma |
| 2-18 | You'll Never Find (Aka You Will Always Find) |
| 2-19 | You Have Caught Me (Aka Catchy Dub) |
| 2-20 | Rock It On A Dub Land |
| 2-21 | Hot Lava |
| 2-22 | Riding West |
| 2-23 | The Night Of Sheron |
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