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Don Drummond

Don Drummond

Don Drummond has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 24 episodes and was first played on 17 March 2015.

Don Drummond (March 12, 1932 - May 6, 1969) was a huge part in the creative genius that is The Skatalites. Drummond was an amazing trombone player as well as composer and arranger. His musical career began in the mid-1950s with the Eric Deans All-Stars. He continued into the 1960s with others, including Kenny Williams.

Drummond was an alumnus of the famous Alpha Boys' School where he developed his musical skills. With the birth of ska, he joined The Skatalites. He became a household name in Jamaica, before suffering mental problems. He was rated by pianist George Shearing to be amongst the world's top five trombone players.

In 1965 he was convicted of the murder on January 1, 1965 of Anita "Margarita" Mahfood, an exotic dancer and singer with whom he'd recorded the hit "Woman A Come" for Clement Dodd's Studio One label. He was interned at Belle Vue Asylum, Kingston where he remained until his death. The official cause of death was "suicide", but other theories remain; some of his colleagues believed it was a government plot against the Kingston musical scene, and some believed that he was killed by gangsters as revenge for the murder of Mahfood.

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Don Drummond

Don Drummond has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 24 episodes and was first played on 17 March 2015.

Don Drummond (March 12, 1932 - May 6, 1969) was a huge part in the creative genius that is The Skatalites. Drummond was an amazing trombone player as well as composer and arranger. His musical career began in the mid-1950s with the Eric Deans All-Stars. He continued into the 1960s with others, including Kenny Williams.

Drummond was an alumnus of the famous Alpha Boys' School where he developed his musical skills. With the birth of ska, he joined The Skatalites. He became a household name in Jamaica, before suffering mental problems. He was rated by pianist George Shearing to be amongst the world's top five trombone players.

In 1965 he was convicted of the murder on January 1, 1965 of Anita "Margarita" Mahfood, an exotic dancer and singer with whom he'd recorded the hit "Woman A Come" for Clement Dodd's Studio One label. He was interned at Belle Vue Asylum, Kingston where he remained until his death. The official cause of death was "suicide", but other theories remain; some of his colleagues believed it was a government plot against the Kingston musical scene, and some believed that he was killed by gangsters as revenge for the murder of Mahfood.

Original source Last.fm

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Silver Dollar
Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, The Skatalites
Archive Recordings2016
Vietnam
Don Drummond
Prince Buster2020
Garden Of Love
Don Drummond
Island Records1964
Cleopatra
Don Drummond, The Skatalites
Coxsone Records0
Addis Ababa
Don Drummond, The Ska-Talites
Coxsone Records0
Confucius
Don Drummond
Top Deck Records1965
This Man Is Back
Don Drummond, The Skatalites
Studio One0
Green Island
Don Drummond
Treasure Isle0
Fidel
Don Drummond
C And N Records2013
Gypsy Song
Don Drummond
Dub Store Records2013