Sad news in my inbox last night.  Yet another original member of The Skatalites has passed away.  Read the obit in the Jamaican Gleaner, here.

TRUMPETER JOHNNY ‘Dizzy’ Moore, a founding member of the Skatalites band, died on Saturday at the age of 69.

Moore succumbed to cancer at a friend’s home, said musicologist.

Herbie Miller, who knew the musician for more than 30 years. Moore had been ailing for some time and was recently discharged from hospital.

Miller hailed Moore as the “most creative thinking musician of the ska period”.

Moore is the sixth member of the legendary band to die. Trombonist Don Drummond, keyboardist Jackie Mittoo, saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and Jerome ‘Jah Jerry’ Hinds predeceased him.