Sad to hear about the death of Rico Rodriguez at a grand old age of 80. This statesman of ska and trombonist had a long career coming from Cuba to Jamaica, been taught by Don Drummond, working with producers Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid and Vincent Chin and then leaving for the UK and working with Price Buster, Dandy Livingston with which he created ‘Rudy A Message to You’ which he later recreated with the Specials, Pama International and his own band – and appearing in the oddest places as a hired trombone player. Check out the massive discography, I’d not heard of a lot of his early or solo work!
I never knew he did a cover of Star Wars (‘Ska Wars’ above) or Quando Quando:
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