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Bertie King

Bertie King has been played on NTS shows including Questing w/ Zakia, with Mango Walk first played on 25 August 2024.

Albert "Bertie" King (Colon, Panama, June 19, 1912 – 1981) was a Jamaican jazz and mento musician who was a saxophonist.

King was born in Panama, and raised in Kingston, where he attended Alpha Boys' School; there he was taught by Sister Mary Ignatius Davis, a remarkable woman who nurtured the talents of many of the leading Jamaican musicians of the era. During the 1930s he led his own band, Bertie King and his Rhythm Aces, described at the time as "Jamaica's Foremost Dance Orchestra"….

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Mango Walk
Bertie King, Ernest Ranglin
Dub Store Records, Federal Records2019
Mango Walk
Bertie King, Ernest RanglinDub Store Records, Federal Records2019
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