Dean Fraser

Dean Fraser (also: Dean Frazer, full name: Dean Ivanhoe Fraser, * August 4, 1957 in Kingston ( Jamaica) ) is a Jamaican reggae saxophonist. He has accompanied the beginning of his career in the late 1970s many major reggae musician with hundreds of recordings and live performances as a brass band.

Life and career

As a teenager, Dean Fraser began to play the clarinet before he was brought up by his teacher Babe O'Brian to the saxophone. Early on, he met Ronald " Nambo " Robinson and Junior " Chico" Chinn, with whom he formed a fan group that was one from the 1980's to the best of Jamaica. Fraser played since the early 1970s in several bands, with whom he had some success with smaller gigs. Since the mid- 1970s he participated in his first recordings. The first significant originated in 1977 after Fraser had joined the We The People band of Lloyd Parks, who accompanied Dennis Brown produced some of Joe Gibbs recordings. The following year, took producer Fraser Gibbs with his first, published under his own name album Black Horn Man on. Other early Dean Fraser albums made ​​in 1979 with Pure Horn and Double Dynamite, then in 1980 with producer Donovan Germain Revolutionary Sounds.

For a collaboration between the brass trio Fraser, Robinson and Chinn with Bob Marley and the Wailers came when 1979 come out album Survival. Fraser had a solo in the song Wake Up And Live and was on the album under Special Thanks to: mentioned as an interested party. Fraser at the time was just the beginning of 20, he was still called Dean " Youth" Fraser. Bob Marley always remained Fraser's Idol, where he is musically connected. On the Reggae Sunsplash in 1981, shortly after Bob Marley's death, Fraser played in memory of him an instrumental version of Marley's Redemption Song, the performance brought Fraser also a popular success and greater recognition as a solo artist. The mid-1990s brought Fraser in honor of reggae legend albums Dean Plays Bob and Dean Plays Bob, Volume II out.

Fraser brought in the decades since the 1980s as a solo artist always numerous plates out, its still a formative effect on the Jamaican music unfolded saxophonist but rather as an accompaniment of other reggae musicians and bands. Since the late 1970s, accompanied Fraser as studio musicians, many of the biggest names in Reggae and Dancehall: Among Peter Tosh ( Mama Africa, 1983), Israel Vibration, Sly & Robbie, Jimmy Cliff, The Melodians, Bunny Wailer, Gregory Isaacs and John Holt. Fraser appeared in 1983 on the LP Anthem by Black Uhuru, worked together in 1987 with Yellowman dont't Burn It Down and 1989 with Mutabaruka on his album Any Which Way ... Freedom. He played saxophone for Burning Spear and Eek- A-Mouse, as well as for Lover Rocker Maxi Priest or the British dub band Dub Syndicate ( Ital Breakfast, 1996). Fraser has worked as a session musician productions at many well-known dancehall musician of the 1990s and representatives of the modern roots to the present day: Among Buju Banton ( Mr. Mention, 1994), Beenie Man (Maestro, 1996), Sizzla, Anthony B, Luciano, Capleton and Damian " Jr. Gong " Marley ( Welcome to Jamrock, 2005). Fraser accompanied Garnett Silk, Morgan Heritage, Beres Hammond, and he was also on the 2010 album diversity of the German reggae musician Gentleman with. In 1988 Fraser was also as a vocal arranger for the producer Augustus " Gussie " Clarke and his Music Works Studios worked and was there among others part recordings of Gregory Isaacs, Cocoa Tea, Freddie McGregor and Dennis Brown.

Fraser acted as saxophonist other musicians not only in the studio but also on stage, so he stepped forward to in the 1980s with Sly & Robbie. In the 1990s, Fraser was with the 809 band multiple times with different reggae artists on European tours, including Dennis Brown, Sugar Minott and Beres Hammond.

Honors

Discography (selection)

  • Black Horn Man ( 1978)
  • Pure Horns (1979 )
  • Double Dynamite (1979 )
  • Revolutionary Sounds ( 1980)
  • A Touch of Sax ( 1982)
  • Pumping air (1984)
  • Big Bad Sax ( 1988)
  • Dean Fraser Sings and Blows (1988 )
  • Moonlight ( VP Records, 1991)
  • Call on Dean ( VP Records, 1991)
  • Taking Chances ( RAS Records, 1992)
  • Dean Plays Bob ( RAS Records, 1994)
  • Mystical Sax ( 1995)
  • The Verdict ( VP Records, 1996)
  • Dean Plays Bob, Volume II ( RAS Records, 1996)
  • Jesus Loves Me (1997)
  • Slow Melodies ( VP Records, 1997)
  • Big Up! ( Iceland Records, 1998)
  • Sax of Life ( VP Records, 2003)
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