Nambo Robinson
Nambo Robinson
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About Nambo Robinson
Ronald "Nambo" Robinson (ca. 1950 - 25 January 2017) was a Jamaican reggae trombone player. For over forty years, Nambo Robinson’s burly frame cast an imposing presence on Jamaican recording studios. Even with the advent of the digital dancehall age he was still in demand as a trombonist. He started his career in the early 1970s with the influential Mystic Revelation of Rastafari. He went on to record and tour with Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Gregory Isaacs, The Taxi Gang, the 809 Band, Lloyd Parks and We The People Band, and The Wailers. Along with saxophonist Dean Fraser and trumpeter Chico Chin, Robinson helped to keep horns alive in contemporary music. In 2016 he toured the United States with The Wailers and the Taxi Gang. Sly Dunbar, part of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, worked on countless hit songs with Robinson as members of The Taxi Gang, including Baltimore by The Tamlins and Jimmy Riley’s My Woman’s Love. They met while working with (producer) Joe Gibbs; he and Dean came around every day to put on horns,” said Dunbar. Robinson was inspired by the legendary Skatalites band and Mystic Revelation of Rastafari which both emerged out of East Kingston, where he was raised. Robinson got his big break in the late 1970s by playing on Survival and Confrontation, two of Bob Marley's albums. Buffalo Soldier, Trench Town and Wake Up And Live are among the Marley songs Robinson played. Ronald Robinson passed away on January 25th 2017
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