Lennie Hibbert

b. Leonard Aloysius Hibbert, 12 November 1928, Mavis Bank, Jamaica, West Indies, d. 1984, Jamaica, West Indies. Hibbert's interest in music started when he was two years old. He later joined the Salvation Army where he was able to concentrate on his percussion skills by playing on the army bands' drums. At the age of eight he went to the celebrated Alpha Boys School where he joined their band as a drummer. After leaving the school in 1944 he played in several small orchestras and finally joined a Jamaican Military Band in 1946. It was while in the services that he mastered pla...