Tan Tan

b. Edward Thornton, c.1934, Jamaica, Western world Indies. Tan Tan is certainly acknowledged as among Jamaica’s leading trumpeters, having used several significant performers. From humble origins playing more than a comb covered in paper, with the mid-50s Tan Tan was playing trumpet alongside Don Drummond on trombone in the Roy Coulton music group, performing on the Cup Bucket and Sterling silver Slipper night clubs. The music group had been also the initial combo to try out go on Jamaican radio and had been later utilized to accompany jazz legends on globe travels. While touring, Tan Tan made a decision to settle in European countries and Drummond came back to Jamaica. Tan Tan performed in several bands in European countries before settling with Georgie Popularity AS WELL AS THE Blue Flames in 1963. The music group liked a string of strikes offering Tan Tan’s completed trumpet playing, which resulted in his being asked to perform in the Beatles strike ‘Got TO TRULY GET YOU Into My Lifestyle’. Although Tan Tan continued to be with Georgie Popularity, he was also enrolled to execute alongside Boney M. Despite Tan Tan having been included in the Jamaican music picture from its first years, it had been not really until he performed with Aswad that he produced a substantial impression inside the reggae community. He performed in the music group’s dextrous horn section, offering Michael ‘Bammi’ Rose and Vin Gordon. Common tunes consist of ‘African Kids’, ‘Like Fireplace’ (which supplied the tempo for Dennis Brown’s ‘Guaranteed Property’), a edition from the Maytals’ ‘54-46 That’s My Amount’, aswell as the dancehall anthems ‘Draw Up’ and ‘Bubbling’. The horn section also supplied the musical base for various other Grove Music performers, including Ruler Sounds as well as the Sons Of Jah.