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Roland Alphonso

Roland Alphonso has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 34 episodes and was first played on 11 April 2014.

Roland Alphonso (Havana, Cuba, January 12, 1931 - Los Angeles, California, November 20, 1998) aka Rolando Alphonso or The Chief Musician was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist.

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

In 1948 he left school to join Eric Deans' orchestra and soon passed through other bands in the hotel circuit and first recorded as a member of Baba Motta's group in 1952.

Around the mid…

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Over And Over
Bobby Sarkie, Roland Alphonso
Wackie's2019
Over And Over
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Shot In The Dark
Roland Alphonso
Top Deck Records1965
Shot In The Dark
Roland AlphonsoTop Deck Records1965
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Roll On
Roland Alphanso, The Upsetters
Punch1970
Roll On
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Musical Happiness
Rolando Alphanso
Studio One0
Musical Happiness
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Song For My Father
Roland Alphonso
Pyramid2012
Song For My Father
Roland AlphonsoPyramid2012
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Jungle Bit
Rolando Al, The Beverly's All Stars
Pyramid1967
Jungle Bit
Rolando Al, The Beverly's All StarsPyramid1967
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Soul Finger
Roland Alphonso, The Beverley's All-Stars
Doctor Bird2022
Soul Finger
Roland Alphonso, The Beverley's All-StarsDoctor Bird2022
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Guantanamera Ska
Rolando Al, The Beverly's All Stars
Pyramid2010
Guantanamera Ska
Rolando Al, The Beverly's All StarsPyramid2010
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A Shot In The Dark (Take 1)
Roland Alphonso
Top Deck Records2002
A Shot In The Dark (Take 1)
Roland AlphonsoTop Deck Records2002
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Lookaway Ska
Roland Alphonso
Studio One1967
Lookaway Ska
Roland AlphonsoStudio One1967
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