The Jazz Organ Scene
Jamaica
|
Winston Wright
Winston (* 1944 in May Pen) was a keyboardist. He was a member of Tommy McCook's Supersonics,
and acknowledged as Jamaica's master of the Hammond organ. He attended Glenmuir High School
where he learned the organ on an old Clavonette Organ. While he was in school, he played with
a local group called the Mercury Band based at the Capri Theatre in May Pen, much to his father's
ire. Tommy McCook saw Winston play at this time, and he was invited to join the Supersonics, the
Treasure Isle house band.
Perhaps Winston's best known work is as the uncredited lead organist on Harry J Allstars' 1969 instrumental hit "The Liquidator". Along with Jackie Jackson, Hux Brown, Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson, Dougie Bryan, Winston Grennan and Paul Douglas, Winston was a member of a group of top session musicians known as the Dynamites, the Crystalites, the Beverley's All-Stars (or other All-Stars depending, on the producer) that played on countless recording sessions from the late 1960s and early '70s. Winston produced a solo single: "Top Secret", with the B-side "Crazy Rhythm" in 1970. Having played for Toots and the Maytals from 1968 along with the Dynamites, Winston accompanied Toots with the Dynamites on their numerous tours throughout the 1970s and '80s. He died of a heart attack in 1993. from Wikipedia |
| contact: | |
| homepage: |
|
Reggae Blast Off Dynamic Sounds DYNA-3310 released 1970 recorded in Kingston, Jamaica |
Byron Lee, bass Ossie Scott, sax Lester Sterling, trumpet Lester Williams, trumpet Hux Brown, guitar Wallace "Red Rat" Wilson, guitar Neville Hinds, organ Winston Wright, organ Bumps Jackson, bass Carl Brady, percussion Tony Cohen, percussion Junior Gray, percussion |
|
Mellow Atlantic SD 16046 released 1981 recorded live 1977 in Montreux/Switzerland |
Herbie Mann, tenor sax, flute, alto flute, vocal Jaroslav Jakabovic, soprano sax Michael Brecker, tenor sax Sonny Fortune, tenor sax Tommy McCook, tenor sax David Newman, tenor sax Claudio Roditi, trombone, trumpet Randy Brecker, trumpet Bobby Ellis, trumpet Hux Brown, guitar Rod Bryan, guitar Larry Coryell, guitar Jeff Mironov, guitar Jim Mullen, guitar Amory Tristao, guitar Gladstone Anderson, piano Clifford Carter, piano Tom Coppola, piano Don Pullen, piano Pat Rebillot, clavinet Dom Salvador, piano Richard Tee, piano Winston Wright, organ Jeff Berlin, bass Frank Gravis, bass Jackie Jackson, bass Leroy Clouden, drums Steve Jordan, drums Michael Richard, drums Rafael Cruz, percussion Sammy Figueroa, percussion |
 |
n/a |
 |
n/a |
|
For more videos search YouTube
|
|
Back
If you don't see the left hand menu,
please go back to the homepage.
Back to the homepage