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Jah Jerry Haynes

Jamaican guitarist active 1949 - 2000. Best known as a founding member of [a=The Skatalites], Haynes played with many bands and was a busy session guitarist, also composing many songs recorded by The Skatalites and others. Lived in NYC for a time in the 1980s. Born in Trench Pen, May 5 1927; died in Jones Town, August 13 2007, age 80.