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Duke Reid Group

Band,
Reggae

Group formed by Arthur "Duke" Reid as his own backing band who backed young singers like Derrick Morgan and 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. Clement "Coxsone" Dodd? Yeah, now we're 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 Roland Alphonso, Val Bennett and Stanley 'Ribs' Notice, trumpeter's Ray Harper and Oswald Baba Brooks, trombonists Rico Rodriguez and Don Drummond, double-bassists Cluett Johnson and Lloyd Brevett, pianists Theophilus Beckford and Owen Gray, guitarists Ernest Ranglin and Dennis Sindrey (remarkably, an Australian), and drummers Arkland 'Drumbago' Parks and Lloyd Knibbs.

Members

	Ernest Ranglin g *1932 JM
	Lester Sterling as, sax *1936 JM
	Tommy McCook ts, sax 1927-1998 JM
	Roland Alphonso ts, sax 1931-1998 JM
	Don Drummond tb *1932 JM
	Owen Gray bvoc, key *1939 JM
	Rico Rodriguez tb 1934-2015 GB
	Arthur "Duke" Reid 1915-1975 JM
	Johnny Moore tr 1938-2008 JM
	Lloyd Brevett b 1931-2012 JM
	Theophilus Beckford p, key 1935-2001 JM
	Val Bennett ts 1991-1991 JM
	Jah Jerry Haynes g 1921-2007 JM
	Lloyd Knibbs dr 1931-2011 JM
	Trenton Spence sax JM
	Cluett Johnson eb, b
	Dennis Sindrey g, voc AU
	Aubrey Adams org, p JM
	Arkland Parks dr JM
	Oswald Brooks tr JM