Tribal Fusion - Reggae on Kwajalein Atoll
My keyboard has been silent for a while. Partly because it has seemed that I have not done anything lately to live up to my trip to Ailinglaplap but mostly because I have been pretty busy with music. Around the end of February a Puerto Rican guy here named Ozzy asked me to play with his Latino band for a Hispanic Dinner Dance that was going to take place on Kwajalein. I had never played Latino music before but am rather fond of Mexican food so I agreed. The band was composed of 2 trumpet players, an acoustic guitar player, a drummer, and my friend Ozzy who played percussion and sang. Ozzy was the only Latino in the band. The rest of us were gringos. I started to practice with them and they had a list of about 10 songs that were pretty much the standard songs that gringos expect from a Latin music band…