Don Drummond

trombone · 1932–1969 · Kingston

Jamaican trombonist and founding member of the Skatalites, he wrote hundreds of ska tunes. Convicted of the murder of his partner in 1965, he died at Bellevue Asylum in 1969.

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Styles

• Ska and Jamaican jazz

Landmark tracks

• Man in the Street (1964)

Sources

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