Thursday, January 12, 2012

Happy Birthday to the late ROLAND ALPHONSO


Roland Alphonso O.D. or Rolando Alphonso aka The Chief Musician born (January 12, 1931, Havana, Cuba - Died November 20, 1998, Los Angeles, California, United States) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist, and one of the founding members of The Skatalites.

Alphonso moved to Jamaica at the age of two with his Jamaican mother, and started to learn saxophone at the Stony Hill Industrial School

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