Rico Rodriguez has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 26 episodes and was first played on 17 August 2013.

Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez MBE (17 October 1934 – 4 September 2015), also known as simply Rico, Reco or El Reco, was a Cuban-born Jamaican ska and reggae trombonist. He recorded with many producers, including Karl Pitterson, Prince Buster, and Lloyd "Matador" Daley. He was known as one of the first and most distinguished ska artists, and from the early 1960s performed and recorded in Britain, with the Specials, Jools Holland,Paul Young, and others.

Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba, and moved with his family…