Rumour has it that there is one band that played on every ska track, and that band is the Skatalites. They played under many aliases over hundreds of recordings. Roland Alphonso is the saxophonist and Don Drummond the trombonist. Drummond is considered as one of the greatest trombonists to ever live and his life marred with tragedy. He developed a fierce hatred of white men and often spat on them in the street. He drifted into mental illness and murdered his girlfriend and spent the rest of his life in a mental asylum after the police cracked down on the music scene it is believed. Many people in the scene believe Drummond was fine. It is a peculiarity of the Jamaican music scene and enigma involving one of the finest trombonists to ever grace the planet.
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