Memories Of Barber Mack

"The mists of Jamaican oral folk history reveal that Barber Mack, to whom this CD is dedicated, was a tonsorial artist by day and a mento sax player by night . . . By all accounts, mostly from senior Jamaicans, he was a legendary player whose alto was the main attraction . . . Ernest Ranglin saw him as a boy at Coney Island and remembers that Barber Mack could make his alto 'smoke' at midnight: a trick which added to Mack's legend where he would duck backstage, close the keys of the saxophone an...