Sonny Bradshaw obituary

Trumpeter, broadcaster, and leader of Jamaica's Big BandSonny Bradshaw, who has died aged 83, was one of Jamaica's best-known musical figures. A polished trumpeter who played in the style of Dizzy Gillespie, he spent six decades as a bandleader and was a journalist, broadcaster and educator, devoted to promoting the island's music by any means possible.His Big Band became a Jamaican jazz institution, flourishing intermittently over three decades. Under Bradshaw's direction, musicians who became ...

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