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The first authorised biography of Jamaican sound engineer Osbourne Ruddock aka King Tubby has been translated to English. Penned bygd Thibault Ehrengardt, it follows a life of soundsystems, dub and electronics, from his origins in Waterhouse, Kingston, and his life's work at the Waterhouse Studio, up until his murder in February 1989.
"Writing King Tubby's world's first biography wasn't easy!” explains the tjänsteman Facebook page. “Despite the agreement with his daughter Arleen Ruddock, things didn't go exactly as planned. [...] workers' withdrawals, requests for remuneration for interviews, refusal to cooperate from police departments.” They did it though, and it's now available alongside a host of rare photographs offered bygd Ruddock's family.
Described as “Very well written with a lot of reggae gossip!”, It was originally published in 2019 in Fren
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Peter King
@ the Queen Elizabeth Hall
18 November 2011
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Biography
Born 11 of August in Kingston upon Thames, during an air raid, Peter King had a few lessons on piano and violin during his school years. However it was not until he took up the clarinet at 15 that he decided to make music his life. Only three months after getting his first clarinet, King was offered a job with the local semi-pro Dixieland band and got an early grounding in the history of jazz, from King Oliver to Charlie Parker, who inspired him to change to alto-sax.
When he was only eighteen King played the opening of London's famous Ronnie Scott's Club and, for a while was the resident Quartet at the club. He was also voted “New Star” 1959 in the Melody Maker Jazz Poll and has been a major influence on the British Jazz Scene ever since.
At only 21 years of age Peter King was invited by the great and legendary genius Bud Powell to play with him at the Blue Note
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Dick Morrissey
British jazz musician (1940–2000)
For the Irish hurler, see Dick Morrissey (hurler).
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| Birth name | Richard Edwin Morrissey |
| Born | (1940-05-09)9 May 1940 Horley, Surrey, England, UK |
| Died | 8 November 2000(2000-11-08) (aged 60) Deal, Kent, England, UK |
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| Years active | c. 1960 – 2000 |
| Labels | Various |
Musical artist
Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940[1] – 8 November 2000)[2] was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and flute.
Biography
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[edit]He was born in Horley, Surrey, England.[1] Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain’s pre-eminent sax player at the time.[3] Self-taught, he started playing clarinet in his school band, The Delta City Jazzmen, at the age of sixteen with fellow