Larry McDonald (percussionist)

For other people named Lawrence McDonald, see Lawrence McDonald (disambiguation).

Larry McDonald is a Caribbean percussionist,[1][2] born in Port Maria in Jamaica in 1939. Larry first started to play congas with Carlos Malcolm band in the 1960s and also with Toots Hibbert of the Grammy Award winning band Toots and the Maytals as well as the Count Ossie Band. He plays a wide variety of traditional percussion instruments.[3]

Career

McDonald has a nearly 50 year history of recording and performing with a wide variety of artists,[4] such as Gil Scott-Heron,[5][6] and Taj Mahal.[7][8]

In 2009, McDonald released his first solo album[9] "Drumquestra" on which he united many of his former band mates from across his career, in an orchestra of drummers, including Sly Dunbar,[4] Uziah Thompson a.k.a. "Sticky" of Bob Marley and the Wailers and the former Count Ossie drummers under their later mantle "Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari" drummers.[10]

Drumquestra also featured former frontmen from bands Larry performed and recorded with,[4] including Toots Hibbert, Bob Andy, Mutabaruka, Stranger Cole and Dollarman. The album was recorded at a live session at Harry J Studios in Kingston Jamaica by Steel Pulse producer Sidney Mills for Malik Al Nasir's MCPR label in the UAE, who released the album in 2009. MCRP also released two singles off the album the same year, "Head Over Heels" Featuring Dollarman and Sly Dunbar and "Set The Children Free" Featuring Toots Hibbert, the latter of which was subsequently re-mixed for dance-floors by Lenny B.

Shortly after the album was released, Larry was honoured [11] in July 2011, at the 14th annual 'Tributes to the Greats' [12] award ceremony in Jamaica, with a lifetime achievement award for his 50 year contribution to Jamaican music.

On Friday 22 March 2013 Larry took to the stage at The UN General Assembly in NYC with Steel Pulse as part of the UNESCO's International Slavery Remembrance Day event.

Selected Discography

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Solo Artists Singles

Solo Artists Remixes

Solo Artists Album

Album Credits

References

  1. ↑ The Beat. Bongo Productions. 2006.
  2. ↑ Fred Metting (January 2001). The Unbroken Circle: Tradition and Innovation in the Music of Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3818-5.
  3. ↑ "Steel Pulse Reverberates Positivity on the Shores of the Hudson". Jamaica Gleaner, 22 July 2008
  4. 1 2 3 Coleman, Nick (31 May 2009). "'Album Review: Larry McDonald, Drumquestra'". The Independent,. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Marcus Baram (11 November 2014). Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man. St. Martin's Press. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-1-250-01279-1.
  6. ↑ Vibe Media Group (February 2002). Vibe. Vibe Media Group. pp. 56–. ISSN 1070-4701.
  7. 1 2 Klive Walker (2005). Dubwise. Insomniac Press. pp. 147–. ISBN 978-1-897414-60-6.
  8. ↑ Fuse. Arton's Cultural Affairs Society and Pub. 1983.
  9. ↑ Selassie, Habte (9 April 2009). "McDonald leads the beat on 'Drumquestra'". The Gleaner. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Poet, J. "Larry McDonald Finally Steals The Spotlight". Drum! Magazine.
  11. ↑ Campbell, Howard (3 July 2011). "'Veteran Percussionist To Be Honoured'". The Gleaner. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  12. ↑ Walters, Basil (5 August 2011). "Tributes to the Greats". Jamaican Observer. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  13. ↑ Music, All (2009). "Larry McDonald Credits". allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  14. ↑ High Fidelity. ABC Leisure Magazines. 1976.
  15. ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/love-and-war/id251749846
  16. ↑ Vladimir Bogdanov; Chris Woodstra; Stephen Thomas Erlewine (2002). All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music. Backbeat Books. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-87930-717-2.
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