Jo Jo Bennett
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Jamaican/Canadian trumpet & flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, co-founder of The Sattelites. Born July 13, 1940 in Kingston, Jamaica, died August 3, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario. A graduate of the Alpha Boys School in Kingston, he began playing the drums, then was lead trumpeter with the Jamaica Military Band. He went on to join Byron Lee And The Dragonaires, recording several albums with them before staying in Canada after the groups show there at Expo 67. In 1970 he returned to Jamaica, released his first and only album "Groovey Joe" while performing live and doing studio work for numerous record companies. He then returned to Canada in the late seventies and registered his music label Bunjo. In the early 1980s he co-founded The Sattalites Music School with Fergus Hambleton and shortly after The Sattalites band.