Tommy McCook
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Tommy McCook (3 March 1927 – 5 May 1998) was a Jamaican saxophonist. A founding member of The Skatalites, he also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or with The Revolutionaries at Channel One Studios in the 1970s. McCook was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved to Jamaica in 1933. He took up the tenor saxophone at the age of eleven, when he was a pupil at the Alpha School, and eventually joined Eric Dean’s Orchestra. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tomm
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tommy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Havana
- Place of death
- Atlanta
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- rocksteady
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Studio One
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- date of birth
- 1927-03-03
- date of death
- 1998-05-05
- member of
- The Skatalites
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