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Steel drummer Robert Greenidge and keyboardist Michael Utley met in 1983 while recording Jimmy Buffett’s album “One Particular Harbor” Greenidge and Utley have been performing and writing together since 1984 when they recorded their first of three albums for MCA Records, “Mad Music” recorded in 1984, “Jubilee” in 1986 and “Heat” in 1988. In 1996 they signed with Island Records and recorded “Club Trini”. In 1998 they formed their own label, Club Trini Records and have just released “Club Trini-Back In Town”. Utley’s love for the music of New Orleans, which he considers the northern most part of the Caribbean, and Greenidge’s love of calypso and classical music combines, giving us the unique blend of soul, rhythm and blues, caribbean and classical which is the sound of Club Trini today.

This explain a little of the Greenidge and Utley musicology.

The CD I have of Mad Music doesn not show Club Trini on it anywhere and I feel like they started calling themselves that in 1996 when the others started playing with them.

I just found this very good article in the Potomac Times.

http://www.lby3.com/archives/date/1996/08/

Here is what was written in 1996 when Greenidge and Utley's Club Trini was released.

The two first collaborated in early 1985 at the suggestion of MCA executive Tony Brown, now the company president. He created a series of jazz albums, mostly with a New Age feel.

Although Greenidge and Utley’s “Mad Music” album was different in tone than the rest of the line, especially given Greenidge’s steel drums, it was successful enough to spawn two more disks, “Jubilee” in 1986 and “Heat” in 1988.

Greenidge and Utley stayed busy — the two are successful studio musicians, and say being Coral Reefers is essentially a “summer job” — and eight years slipped past before the release of “Club Trini.” They feel it was worth the wait.

Club Trini will be playing at this year's MOTM as well.
Phin