Samuel BlaserBest Samuel Blaser Albums Ranked

Routes (feat. Lee "Scratch" Perry, Alex Wilson, Alan Weekes, Ira Coleman, Dion Parson, Soweto Kinch, Michael Blake, Edwin Sanz & Carroll Thompson)

guardian

8.0

“Rarely an orchestral favourite, the trombone found a better home in jazz, where it was a mainstay of 1920s Dixieland, later finding a place with modernists such as Roswell Rudd and Delfeayo Marsalis. It further became a key instrument in 1960s Jamaican jazz and ska, thanks to the revered talents of Kingston’s Don Drummond, a pivotal but tragic figure whose life ended in mental health problems and ”