All things ska and rocksteady
Vin Gordon & the Real Rock Band brings you one of the true originators. A musician who loves nothing more than playing live music to the people and keeping the audience dancing to Jamaica's musical history. Boss tunes and mighty ska big band uptempo instrumentals featuring plenty jazz solos, sweet and mellow rocksteady, rocking reggae grooves and some heavy roots all feature in this great good times show - classic after classic, covering the golden decades of the best Jamaican music!
The legendary Vin Gordon, aka 'Trommie', aka 'Don D Junior', is Jamaica's master trombonist, and played through the golden years of Jamaican music - through ska, rocksteady and on to working with some of the most iconic reggae artists in the world. A pupil at the hugely influential (and equally legendary) Alpha Boys School of Music, Vin's recording career began at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One in 1965 and the rest is Jamaican musical history, with Trommie's distinctive sound flowing throw decades of classic tunes. Vin's life in music started in the early 60s at the legendary Alpha Boys School of Music where he took up the trombone. Soon mastering his sound and earning a reputation as a player, he started recording at Coxone Dodd's Studio One in 1965 recording for The Wailers alongside great musicians such as The Skatalites' Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Jackie Mittoo, Lloyd Brevett, Lester Sterling, Bobby Ellis and many more. Vin's trombone sounds can be heard on the recordings of many Studio One legends of the day: the Wailers, Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, the Abyssinians, the Heptones, Delroy Wilson, Bob Andy and Alton Ellis and plenty more, the list is staggering. His biggest hits as a solo artist we
Venue: Hideaway Jazz Club, 2 Empire Mews, Stanthorpe Road, London, SW16 2BF
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