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The Baba Brooks Band

The Baba Brooks Band has been played on NTS shows including Asher G's Caribbean Memories, with So Long first played on 17 January 2021.

Oswald Baba Brooks started his musical career as a trumpet player with the Eric Dean Orchestra in Jamaica in the 1950's. The Jamaican bands played mostly Folk, Afro, Jazz, they played at clubs, big hotels and sometimes on local radio. This was an exciting scene at the time but began to die out towards the end of the fifties. Band members began to move into the recording studios in Kingston that were emerging at the time with the advent of the…

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MOST PLAYED TRACKS
Wildcat
The Upsetters, Baba Brooks and His Recording Band
Excel1966
Wildcat
The Upsetters, Baba Brooks and His Recording BandExcel1966
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Party Time
Baba Brooks With His Recording Band
Doctor Bird1967
Party Time
Baba Brooks With His Recording BandDoctor Bird1967
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So Long
Sterling, Baba Brooks Band
Treasure Isle2009
So Long
Sterling, Baba Brooks BandTreasure Isle2009
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Jump Independently
Count Lasher, Lynn Taitt, Baba Brooks Band
Dutchess1966
Jump Independently
Count Lasher, Lynn Taitt, Baba Brooks BandDutchess1966
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Treasure Isle
Don Drummond, Baba Brooks Band
Treasure Isle1965
Treasure Isle
Don Drummond, Baba Brooks BandTreasure Isle1965
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