Richard Hall was a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n saxophonist who worked with many reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 artists including Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh

Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh , was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers , and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.Peter Tosh was born in Grange Hill, Jamaica, an illegitimate child to a mother too young...

 and Burning Spear

Burning Spear

Winston Rodney, OD , also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician. Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.-History:...

. Nicknamed "Dirty Harry," he also starred in the film Rockers alongside Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace.

Biography

A former Alpha Boys school student famous for his tenor saxophone playing. In 1974 he played on Jacob Miller's "Keep On Knocking" for Augustus Pablo's Rockers Production team. In 1975 he was asked to contribute to Burning Spear's "Marcus Garvey" album which featured the Black Disciples band. He also played on Peter Tosh's hugely successful second solo album, Equal Rights. The movie Rockers features Richard Hall, alongside Bobby Ellis and Tommy McCook, playing "Satta A Massagana" and features a picture of Richard Hall on the cover of the VHS release.

Richard Hall was brutally shot and killed at a robbery in Manhattan.