Rico Rodriguez - Unreleased Early Recordings: Shuffle & Boogie 1960 (Dub Store Records)

Among the seven songs in the track list, which all date back to 1960, a period when ska hadn't been invented yet and musicians like Rico Rodriguez were forced to play the hotel circuit for a largely upscale white audience, a song featuring Hortense Ellis ('I've Got A Secret') and a combination with keyboardist and band leader Herman 'Hersang' Sang (closing track 'Sinclair Special'). Impression of an era and the start of the musical career of what would become a trombone-legend.