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Johnny “Dizzy” Moore, founding member of the Skatalites, one of the most important band of collective musicians, and seminal creators of the popular expression, Ska, departed from family, friends & fans on August 16, 2008. A celebration of his life through music is an apt expression of imprinting his legacy for future generations as he certainly “put music before anything else”! As his biography that...
FSaturday September 6th at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church at 89 Maxfield Avenue at 11am, with internment at Dovecot at 1pm, charting a newriday September 5th at 7pm at Ashanti Oasis Restaurant & Lawn at Hope Gardens
As the trumpeter with the Jamaican group the Skatalites, Johnny Moore played a key part in popularising the distinctive rhythms of ska, which later developed into reggae. His inventive soloing earned him the nickname “Dizzy” from his fellow musicians and the Skatalites enjoyed instrumental hits such as Guns of Navarone under their own name as well as playing on numerous recordings by other seminal...
DJ Greedy G's Journey Through Black (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Hour One of my June 22 Show. Playlist: Rudy Alba Special 01 - Smiling - Don Drummond (Top Deck 7) 02 - You're Too Bad - Jackie Opel (Studio 1 - Ska Authentic Vol 2) 03 - Addis Ababa - The Skatalites (Soul Jazz - Studio 1 Ska) 04 - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Llans Thelwell & The Celestials (JA Gold - Dynamic Treasury Vol 2) 05 - Rudies All Round - Joe White (Trojan - Rudies All Around) 06 - Try...
It is no exaggeration to say that the Jamaican band the Skatalites changed the course of popular music. Though they were only together for 15 months in the mid-Sixties, they helped originate the style of music known as ska. Forty-five years on, with its infectious syncopation, it still inspires the likes of Lily Allen, Ava Leigh and Amy Winehouse.
From The Associated Press: KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Johnny Moore, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band the Skatalites, died on Saturday. He was 70. He died at a friend's house after being released from the hospital where he had cancer treatment last week, said Herbie Miller, a music promoter. Mr. Moore helped form the Skatalites in 1964 along with the saxophonists...
Trumpeter Johnny "Dizzy" Moore, one of the founding members of the Jamaican ska/reggae outfit the Skatalites, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Moore, along with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don Drummond, formed the band in 1964; it broke up a little more than a year later, but its influence spread far and wide. Moore became a fixture of the session-musician...
The sound of the Skatalites is, to a large degree, the sound of Jamaican ska records from the 60s, but the actual reason the group formed as 'The Skatalites' was to perform live. By June of 1964, the musicians who came together as the Skatalites had already been crucially involved in the developement of the new Jamaican music called ska, but it wasn't until then that this group of the top studio musicians...
Will the REAL Shark Wilson please stand up? “Listen - Shark Wilson & the Basement Heaters - Make It Reggae - MP3″ “Listen - Shark Wilson & the Basement Heaters - Make It Reggae (Version) - MP3″ Greetings all. I hope all is well on your end as we gather together to commence another week of soulful [...]
Trumpet player 'Dizzy' Johnny Moore, a founding member of pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae act The Skatalites , has passed away. Moore died at his home in Kingston on Saturday after being released from a hospital where he was being treated for colon cancer. Moore helped form the band in 1964 with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don Drummond. The band helped establish...
Johnny Moore, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band The Skatalites, died of cancer on Saturday. He was 70. Moore died at a friend's house after being released from the hospital following cancer treatment last week, music promoter Herbie Miller said. Moore helped form the band in 1964 along with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don...
