TOMMY MCCOOK
Dub/Ska/Reggae • Cuba
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Thomas Matthew McCook Profile: 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 . In 1954 he moved to Nassau, Barbados to play
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Horny Dub
Dub/Ska/Reggae
1976
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