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Backgrounder: Ernest Ranglin's Wranglin'

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Marc Myers
Oct 14, 2022
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Ernest Ranglin is one of Jamaica's finest jazz, ska, mento and rock-steady guitarists. Best of all, he has always mixed them up while playing with a technique that has always left me speechless. In 1962, when the James Bond film Dr. No was being shot in Jamaica, Ranglin was hired to compose music for some of the Jamaican scenes. The following year, Rang…

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