Headley Bennett

Felix Headley Bennett OD (born 1931), more often known simply as Headley Bennett or Deadly Headley, is a Jamaican saxophonist who has performed on hundreds of recordings since the 1950s. Born in Kingston in 1931, Bennett attended the Alpha Boys School from the age of five, where he learned to play the saxophone. He left aged fifteen and worked as a musician for a while in Canada before returning to Jamaica. Since the 1960s, 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. 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...