W.I / Panamania....JAZZ

[Sir X]

Dolphy was born in Los Angeles to Eric Allan Dolphy, Sr. and Sadie Dolphy, who immigrated to the United States from Panama.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiDFQJ15P8

[TDowl]

Thanks X, beautiful music.

Would you happen to know if Beny Moore(Cuban Band leader) had Jamaican connection?

[Sir X]

No He isnt to my knowledge


Moré stayed in Cuba, among, as he said, "mi gente" (my people).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Mor%C3%A9

[Sir X]

Check This from an Alpha Boy , once rated as the greatest in the U.K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlP86ND9Nlk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_McNair

Another Alpha Old Boy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Harriott


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4isVVwqAYk

Another One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEE-Gt4tJNE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Reece



British Jazz - Alpha played a huge role.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_jazz

[Gamma]

previously my favourite Naima was coltrane's which is the original. ... i think it still is but barely and only because coltrane composed it in honour of his wife and so it has a bit more feeling to it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuD9VqpgNc

NOICE!!!

[Sir X]

Alpha again Foundation of British Jazz


West Indian swing band leader Ken "Snakehips" Johnson and Leslie Thompson, a Jamaican trumpeter, influenced jazz in Britain, with the band fronted by Johnson – "The Emperors of Jazz" – being the first large Black band of note.[2] Johnson went on to form one of the top swing bands in the country, known as "The West Indian Orchestra", which became the resident band at fashionable London venue Café de Paris, and it was here that Johnson was among those killed by a German bomb during the Blitz in the early days of the war.[2][3]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgpoV3QZWV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDt8gF7qMiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZQMzYCelpQ

[Gamma]

sweet.