{"id":46599,"date":"2020-12-29T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=46599"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:37:36","slug":"still-on-holidays-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=46599","title":{"rendered":"Still on holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My blog is still on holiday until Wednesday, December 30, 2020. All the best from my local beach (Bar Beach today). I have started to read the EU-UK agreement. Not very enlightening I can tell you. Music to follow …
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Music – Fu Man Chu from Rico Rodriguez and Don Drummond<\/h2>\n

This is what I have been listening to today while working.<\/p>\n

It is one of my favourite trombone players – Emmanuel ‘Rico’ Rodriguez<\/a> – who sadly died in September 2015 at the age of 80.<\/p>\n

He was born in Cuba but made his name in Jamaica after being taught by none other than – Don Drummond<\/a> – one of the all-time best brass players from Kingston.<\/p>\n

The undoubted best jazz, reggae trombone player of all time.<\/p>\n

Rico played devotional music (rasta) with Jamaican hand drummer – Count Ossie<\/a> in the 1950s and later with Winston Rodney aka Burning Spear.<\/p>\n

He then moved to the UK and started playing jazz reggae before joining The Specials and playing ska.<\/p>\n

His best album was in 1976 – Man from Wareika<\/a> – which is one of my all-time favourites.<\/p>\n

This track – Fu Man Chu – was written by Rico Rodriguez and was on the 2000 album he recorded with Don Drummond – Reggae Jazz Attack<\/a> (Charly Records, Germany).<\/p>\n

The Rico Rodriguez All Stars are the other musicians and comprise some of the best studio musicians in Jamaica.<\/p>\n

The album travels with me everywhere on my iPhone.<\/p>\n