compilation "Best of Rolando Alphonso"]]Roland Alphonso or Rolando Alphonso aka The Chief Musician (January 12 1931, Havana, Cuba - November 20 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA) was a Jamaican tenor saxophonist. Alphonso came to Jamaica at the age of two with his Jamaican mother, and started to learn saxophone at the Stony Hill Industrial School. In 1948 he left school to join Eric Deans' Orchestra and soon passed through other bands in the hotel circuit and first recorded as a member of Baba Motta's group in 1952. Around the mid 1950s, he joined the band of Cluett Johnson named Clue J & The Blues Blasters and backed many sessions of Coxsone Dodd in a typical Jamaican R&B style.By 1960, he was recording for many other producers such as Duke Reid, Lloyd "The Matador" Daley and King Edwards.During this period he played in many different bands, such as The Alley Cats, The City Slickers, Aubrey Adams & The Dew Dr

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