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Rico Rodriguez

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Rico

Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez MBE (17 October 1934 – 4 September 2015), also known as Rico, Reco or El Reco, was a Cuban-born Jamaican ska and reggae trombonist. He recorded with producers such as Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd Daley. He was known as one of the first ska musicians. Beginning in the 1960s, he worked with The Members, The Specials, Jools Holland, and Paul Young. Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba, and at an early age moved with his family to Jamaica. He grew up there in Kingston, and was taught to play the trombone by his slightly older schoolmate Don Drummond at the Alpha Boys School. In the 1950s, Rodriguez became a Rastafarian and was closely associated musically to the rasta drummer Count Ossie.

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Peel played some of Rico's material when he was collaborating with the Specials in the late 70's and early 80's. Interestingly Rico, who was known as Reco in the late 60's had a song that was a b-side to Andy Capp's Pop-A-Top single, which Peel claimed to have been the first reggae song he played on his programme. However, the b-side, according to available tracklistings on this site, never seemed to have been played by the DJ. The single was later found to be in Peel's record box after his death in 2004.

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Take Five

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