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Another ska musician has sadly passed away; the trumpet player for the Skatalites ‘Dizzy Johnny’. He was battling colon cancer and was 70 year old.

Jamaica Observer reports:

Internationally recognized trumpeter ‘Dizzy’ Johnny Moore, a founding member of the Skatalites and ska innovator died yesterday afternoon at his home in Kingston. For the past seven months the 70-year-old Moore had been bravely battling colon cancer, but finally gave up the fight.

John Arlington Moore was born in Kingston on October 5, 1938 to a family that did not consider music a favourable or viable career. But when young Johnny noticed a neighborhood lad playing the drums, he asked, “Bwoy, where did you learn to do that?”
“Alpha,” said the lad.

“Whoa, I got to go to that place,” was Moore’s response.

The problem with Johnny’s desire was: only wayward youths were admitted to Alpha. To qualify, he purposely caused enough mischief for his mother to take him and enroll him there. As he put it, “I had to pull a couple of pranks so that they figured I was going haywire.”

Read the full article www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20080816T230000-0500_139162_OBS_SKATALITES_TRUMPETER_DIZZY_JOHNNY_BLOWS_HIS_FINAL_BREATH_.asphere.