Duke Reid Group

Group formed by [a288648] as his own backing band who backed young singers like [a=Derrick Morgan] and [a=Jiving Juniors].

Those 'groups', as it goes, were often drawn from the same nucleus of musicians, who would simply change their name according to which sound system man (or producer, as they were becoming known) they were working for that day. Trojan? Fine, we're Duke Reid's group. [a=Clement "Coxsone" Dodd]? Yeah, now we're [a=The Blues Blasters]. And so on. On dozens of those early records from Jamaican R&B's 1958 - 62 heyday, the band included permutations of sax men [a=Roland Alphonso], [a=Val Bennett] and Stanley 'Ribs' Notice, trumpeters [a=Raymond Harper] and Oswald [a=Baba Brooks], trombonists [a=Rico Rodriguez] and [a=Don Drummond], double-bassists [a=Cluett Johnson] and [a=Lloyd Brevett], pianists [a=Theophilus Beckford] and [a=Owen Gray], guitarists [a=Ernest Ranglin] and [a=Dennis Sindrey] (remarkably, an Australian), and drummers Arkland '[a=Drumbago]' Parks and [a=Lloyd Knibbs].