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Band Name: Tommy McCook

Music Album: Tribute To Tommy: The Best Of Tommy McCook And The Skatalites

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Music Genre: Reggae Ska

Record Label: Heartbeat Records (2)

Album Release Country: United States

Music Record Type: 18 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 (...)


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18 Tracks
1 Exodus2:43
2 Adam's Apple (A.k.a. Don't Bother Me No More)2:26
3 Ska Ba2:55
4 Freedom Sounds3:42
5 Latin Go Ska (A.k.a. Pachito Eche)3:01
6 Cow And Gate2:51
7 Don't Slam The Door2:17
8 Trotting In3:03
9 Road Block2:15
10 Ska Legion3:08
11 Peanut Vendor3:12
12 Sauvitt (A.k.a. Sauvito)3:08
13 Goldfinger2:57
14 Junior Jive2:30
15 A Little Bit Of Heaven2:31
16 Wheel And Turn2:40
17 Jazz Walking3:19
18 The Answer7:41

Track 7 “Don’t Slam The Door” is actually “Always On Sunday.”
Violin - Raymond
Recorded at Jamaica Recording and Publishing Co., Kingston, Jamaica, 1962 to 1965 (Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16)
Recorded at Federal Records (Tracks: 5, 13, 15)
Recorded at Treasure Isle Studio, Kingston Jamaica (Track 17).




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