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Just received this from a friend...


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Sorry about the impersonal group email, but writing to let you know that Skatalites trumpeter "Dizzy" Johnny Moore is very, very sick with cancer (was told "its gone into his bones") and that a good friend of mine has organized a little ska revival thing in his honor in Kingston this Sunday. Yes, I know you're probably not IN Kingston to go, but maybe it's something you can send around to people you know who are interested in ska so that thoughts about the event and support for Dizzy can echo around the ska-loving world.


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Ska pioneer Johnny Moore dies at 70

10 hours ago

Johnny Moore, a trumpeter and founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band The Skatalites, has died of cancer at 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 Drummond.

"He was the most creative of the trumpeters from the ska period," Miller said. "He was always willing to try different things."

During the first 14 months the band was together, it transformed jazz, movie themes and other genres of music with ska style.

It broke up in the 1960s, but regrouped in New York two decades later. Two of their albums, Hip Bop Ska and Greetings from Skamania, were nominated for Grammy awards in the 1990s.


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AP - 16.10.2008 21:10
Jamaican trumpeter Johnny Moore, founding member of "The Skatalites" reggae band, dies

A music promoter says Johnny Moore, a trumpeter and a founding member of the pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae band, "The Skatalites," has died. He was 70.

Music promoter Herbie Miller says Moore died Saturday of cancer.

Moore helped form "The Skatalistes" in 1964 along with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don Drummond, all of whom have died.

The group lasted only 14 months but made its mark by transforming everything from jazz to movie themes into ska style.

The Skatalites regrouped in New York in the 1980s. Two of their albums, "Hip Bop Ska" and "Greetings from Skamania," were nominated for Grammy awards in the 1990s.