Rico Rodriguez: Tribute to Don Drummond - VINYL LP

Rico Rodriguez: Tribute to Don Drummond - VINYL LPTitle: Tribute to Don Drummond Artist: Rico Rodriguez Label: Striker Lee Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 667209411015 Genre: International Release Date: 2016 06 10 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: 10 INCH VINYL Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez (1934 2015), a graduate of Kingston's legendary musical academy the Alpha Boys School, was renowned worldwide as a master trombonist. Shortly after leaving school, he became a member of the famed Eric Dean's band,

Title: Tribute to Don Drummond
Artist: Rico Rodriguez
Label: Striker Lee
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 667209411015
Genre: International
Release Date: 2016-06-10
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: 10-INCH VINYL

Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez (1934-2015), a graduate of Kingston's legendary musical academy the Alpha Boys School, was renowned worldwide as a master trombonist. Shortly after leaving school, he became a member of the famed Eric Dean's band, playing alongside Ernest Ranglin, Tommy McCook, Lloyd Brevett, and Lloyd Knibbs, among others. He was soon joined by trombonist Don Drummond, to whom he dedicated this 1969 album. In the early 1960s Rodriguez left Jamaica and emigrated to London. His instrumental virtuosity eventually earned him many sessions and gigs, most notably with rhythm and blues combo Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. In later years he featured as a member of The Specials and also with Jools Holland's Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. This reissue finds Rodriguez back in 1969 with the opportunity to blow over contemporary Jamaican rhythms from legendary producer Bunny "Striker" Lee. Earlier that year news arrived from Jamaica of Don Drummond's passing. Lee and Rodriguez immediately decided to record a tribute album to this internationally renowned trombonist. The album takes its rhythms from the Bunny Lee All Stars, with Rodriguez's trombone overdubs and vocal interjections by Gene Rondo (aka Winston Laro) laid at T.M.C. Studios, London, in mid-1969. The album was completed in four hours, which is a testament to Rodriguez's masterful trombone skills. This reissue includes ten of the original 12 tracks. 10" in heavy card picture sleeve with poly outer sleeve.

Tracks:
1.1 Tribute to Don Drummond
1.2 Anancy Rumba
1.3 Rainbow Into the Rio Mino
1.4 Sweet Chariot
1.5 Tom Jones
1.6 Scar Face
1.7 Trombone Man
1.8 Japanese Invasion
1.9 Top of the Class
1.10 Black Milk