^ "Headley Bennett, sax player on Bob Marley's first song, dies".^ Headley Bennett, sax player on Bob Marley's first song, dies.^ Campbell-Livingston, Cecelia (2013) " Hard Times Hit Headley", Jamaica Observer, 27 February 2013.^ " People: Sylvester Stallone, Headley Bennett, ABBA", New York Times, 18 October 2005, retrieved 6 December 2009.Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. ^ "Headley Bennett, ska and reggae saxophonist – obituary".Deadly Headly Bennett Meets The Magnificent Ossie Scott (197?), Carl's/Gorgon – with Ossie Scott.īennet died on 21 August 2016, having recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He was revealed to be in financial difficulties in 2013, suffering from back and prostate problems due to mounting medical bills. In 2005, aged 74, Bennet was awarded the Order of Distinction in the rank of Officer for his contribution to the development of music by the Jamaican government. In the late 1970s he released an album of instrumental versions of soul ballads with Ossie Scott, Deadly Headly Bennett Meets The Magnificent Ossie Scott, and in 1981 he recorded 35 Years From Alpha with producer Adrian Sherwood, released in 1982 and reissued in 1999. While the majority of his recordings have been as a session musician, he has released two albums where he is credited as the main artist. In the late 1960s he moved to Canada, returning to Jamaica in 1977. He went on to record with The Abyssinians, Alton Ellis, and Prince Far I among many others. Prince Buster claimed Bennett's solo in Derrick Morgan's song "Forward March" was stolen from Lester Sterling's solo in Buster's own track "They Got to Come", leading to a feud between Buster and Morgan. In the ska era of the late 1950s and 1960s, he played on many recordings for a variety of studios including Bob Marley's first recording, " Judge Not", for Leslie Kong, and Derrick & Patsy's "Housewives Choice". In 1962, as a member of The Sheiks, he performed at Palisadoes Airport to greet Princess Margaret on her visit to the island to mark Jamaica's independence.
Since the 1950s, Bennett has worked as a session musician in Jamaica, playing in the Studio One house band as well as in Lynn Taitt's band The Jets, The Mighty Vikings, and in The Revolutionaries. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Bennett attended the Alpha Boys School from the age of five, where he learned to play the saxophone.
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