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Rico Rodriguez
With one of the trademark sounds of Jamaican music, Rico Rodriguez's trombone
playing lit up the classic early ska recordings and made him a hero of the UK's
2Tone movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Originally from Cuba, his family
emigrated to Kingston, Jamaica in the 1930s where he learned trombone and
studied classical at a specialist music school, before taking an apprenticeship
as a mechanic. He played in Latin jazz bands in the early 1950s and became a
regular session musician for legendary producers Coxsone Dodd, Prince Buster and
Duke Reid before moving to England in 1961 a...
