Dizzy Reece
Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece (born 5 January 1931) is a Jamaican-born hard bop jazz trumpeter with a distinctive sound and compositional style. Dizzy Reece is one of the lesser-known but top-ranking, legendary Jamaican jazz musicians, a group that includes fellow Jamaican-born saxophonists Bertie King, Joe Harriott, Roland Alphonso, Wilton Gaynair, Sonny Bradshaw and Tommy McCook, trombonist Don Drummond, pianists Monty Alexander and Cecil Lloyd, bassists Lloyd Brevett, Coleridge Goode, guitarist Ernest Ranglin and percussionists Count Ossie and Lloyd Knibb.
Biography
Reece was born on 5 January 1931 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of a silent film pianist. He attended the Alpha Boys School (famed in Jamaica for its musical alumni), switching from baritone to trumpet when he was 14 years old. A full-time musician from the age of 16, he moved to London in 1948 and spent the 1950s working in Europe, much of that time in Paris. He played with Don Byas, Kenny Clarke, Frank Foster and Thad Jones, among others. Recording with fine British musicians, he led several sessions in London in 1955-1957. Passing through London where his first Blue Note session took place, Donald Byrd and Art Taylor joined in for his strong first Blue Note album.
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ALBUMS
- Nirvana released: 2006
- Mosaic Select released: 2004
- Soundin' Off released: 1960
- Star Bright released: 1959
- Blues In Trinity released: 1958
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Whiskey Makes Me Crazy
by: TossersI put my shoes on backward on the way out to a dance
Then I had to go back home cause I forgot my pants
I bought my love a ring and I professed my love of course
We were not yet married and she wanted a divorce
Stout it makes you thick, and it makes you thin and lazy
Irish whiskey drives me nuts whiskey makes me crazy
I curled up with my wife after I'd gone to wet my throat
Then I woke up in the stall all curled up with the goat
My friends do not invite me anymore for anything
Cause I stumble round their houses all upending everything
My mother used to beat me she would beat me black and blue
Now I have a wife and sure she's beating on me too
I once had a job and you could say that I was skilled