Label: Studio 16 – STU 16 LP 008
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 01 Apr 2020
Genre: Reggae
Style: Roots Reggae
Sought-after debut album by one integral key player behind Studio One’s “Real Rock”
Vin Gordon AKA ‘Don Drummond Jr.’ was one of Jamaica’s greatest trombonists, recorded some of Studio 1’s greatest albums.
Vin Gordon and Don Drummond were students at the Alpha School of Music where musicians such as Tommy McCook and many other great Jamaican musicians attended.
When Don Drummond died in 1969, Studio 1 engaged Vin Gordon as their session Trombonist. Vin Gordon also played with the late, great Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, the band known as The Skatalites, Bobby Ellis, Lloyd Parks and Sly Dunbar.
Now the man has released his album known as ‘Way Over Yonder’ which was first released in 1980 on the Joe Gibbs label.
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