Biography
"Trumpeter, Raymond Harper attended the Alpha Boys School as a boy. As a pupil there, he taught younger pupil Bobby Ellis how to play.
There is a reference in a Gleaner advert that in 1959 he was playing in the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) Orchestra.
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It is also known that at one stage Harper played in Coburn’s Orchestra at ‘The Bournemouth’ alongside Don Drummond, Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso.
He went on to play with the Carib-Beats, and also became the no.1 choice of trumpeter for the records of Prince Buster. He can often be recognised on record by his use of vibrato."
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