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Independent.co.uk: Jerome Hines (Jah Jerry), guitarist and songwriter: born 1927; died Kingston, Jamaica 13 August 2007.
The Jamaican musician Jerome Hines “Jah Jerry” helped create the sound of ska, as guitarist with the Skatalites and studio accompanist to Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Toots and the Maytals and Millie Small. His distinctive, syncopated guitar playing, combining elements of mento, calypso and jazz, featured on hundreds of recordings. Ska’s popularity has proved enduring, first with mods and skinheads in the UK, subsequently with the 2-Tone bands the Specials, Madness, the Beat and the Selecter, and again from the late Eighties with the American ska-core groups Fishbone, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, No Doubt and Less Than Jake. Ska also paved the way for rock steady and reggae.
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