{"id":4621,"date":"2022-10-14T12:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2022-10-14T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:55:18","slug":"don-drummonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"Don Drummonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Don Drummond<\/b>\u00a0(12 March 1932<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Walker_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-memorial_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u2013 6 May 1969) was a Jamaican\u00a0<a title=\"Ska\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ska\">ska<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Trombone\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trombone\">trombonist<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Composer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Composer\">composer<\/a>. He was one of the original members of\u00a0<a title=\"The Skatalites\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Skatalites\">The Skatalites<\/a>, and composed many of their tunes. In 1966, Drummond was convicted of murdering his 23-year-old lover,\u00a0<a title=\"Anita Mahfood\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anita_Mahfood\">Anita &#8220;Marguerita&#8221; Mahfood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drummond was born at the Jubilee Hospital in\u00a0<a title=\"Kingston, Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston,_Jamaica\">Kingston<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Jamaica\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\">Jamaica<\/a>, to Doris Monroe and Uriah Drummond.<sup id=\"cite_ref-memorial_3-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He was educated at Kingston&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Alpha Boys School\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_Boys_School\">Alpha Boys School<\/a>, where he later taught his younger schoolmate\u00a0<a title=\"Rico Rodriguez (musician)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rico_Rodriguez_(musician)\">Rico Rodriguez<\/a>\u00a0to play the\u00a0<a title=\"Trombone\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trombone\">trombone<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>His musical career began in 1950 with the Eric Dean&#8217;s All-Stars where he performed jazz.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Walker_2-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> He continued into the 1960s with others, including Kenny Williams.<\/p>\n<p>After performing jazz for a decade, Drummond began performing ska and in 1964 he joined\u00a0The Skatalites. With Drummond&#8217;s politicized conversion to the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Rastafari movement\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rastafari_movement\">Rastafari movement<\/a>, other band members followed his lead.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Frommer's_Jamaica_2006,_p._262_6-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0He became a household name in Jamaica, before suffering mental health problems. It has been said that pianist\u00a0<a title=\"George Shearing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Shearing\">George Shearing<\/a> rated him as being among the world&#8217;s top five trombone players.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Drummond\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Drummond\u00a0(12 March 1932\u2013 6 May 1969) was a Jamaican\u00a0ska\u00a0trombonist\u00a0and\u00a0composer. He was one of the original members of\u00a0The Skatalites, and composed many of their tunes. In 1966, Drummond was convicted of murdering his 23-year-old lover,\u00a0Anita &#8220;Marguerita&#8221; Mahfood. Drummond was born at the Jubilee Hospital in\u00a0Kingston,\u00a0Jamaica, to Doris Monroe and Uriah Drummond.\u00a0He was educated at Kingston&#8217;s\u00a0Alpha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reggae-icons","tag-facts"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4623,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions\/4623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}