Vinyl records

Tommy McCook vinyl records

2 albums with 22 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Thomas Matthew McCook. 4 March 1927 – 5 May 1998. Very important Jamaican saxophone player, who was a founding member of The Skatalites and The Supersonics. McCook was born in Havana, Cuba. When his father worked on the Panama Canal, the family moved to Jamaica in 1933. McCook went to Alpha School, famed for giving good musical eductions. His career started in 1943 when he performed in Eric Dean Orchestra, one of the best in Jamaica at that time. He then switched to Don Hitchman's sextet, one of the first jamaican bands ever recorded (1952/1953), at the first radio station in Jamaica, Z or Zed QI.