A Ruby Night tonite

St Ann remembers Jack Ruby on November 24
By Carl Gilchrist

Little has been done, locally, since Jack Ruby’s death in 1989 to
highlight
or celebrate the work of this former sound system operator and record
producer.
Now Garwin Davis and his Tropical Vibes outfit, fresh from the
successful
staging of the inaugural Ocho Rios Seafood Festival in August, have
decided
to do something and will stage the first “Tribute to Jack Ruby”
show on
Saturday, November 24 at Lawrence Park in St Ann’s Bay.
Legendary sound systems Killamanjaro, King SturGav, Black Scorpio and
King
Jammy’s will line up in the park to lead the tribute and will be
complemented by a host of artistes.
The tribute is just recognition of the work of a man whose contribution
to
Jamaican music has gone largely unnoticed.
Ruby, real name Lawrence Lindo, is largely responsible for the rise to
stardom of St Ann reggae icon Burning Spear, producing the standard
reggae
album Marcus Garvey (1975), that pushed Spear to international
recognition.
Ruby also produced the albums Man in the Hills by Burning Spear and
Jack
Ruby Presents the Black Foundation, a various artist compilation.
Ruby also worked with several other local recording artistes including
Big
Youth, Ken Boothe, Delroy Wilson, The Heptones and Justin Hinds and the

Dominoes.
His Sound system, Jack Ruby HiFi, was one of the top sound systems in
Jamaica during the late 1970s into the 1980s.
According to Davis, it is high time Jamaica and St Ann in particular,
recognize the tremendous contribution the Lindo has made to Jamaican
music.
Jack Ruby’s legacy continues through his grandson Sean Kingston
(Kisean
Anderson) whose first hit Beautiful Girls has topped music charts
worldwide.