Recorded live at Harry J Studio, Kingston, Jamaica in the summer of 1981 for the "Deep Roots Music" documentary.

With this upload, I'm trying to gather a definitive and accurate list of musicians playing in this video. Using personal knowledge and information from comments on other YT videos I was able to come up with this partial listing:

Tommy McCook on saxophone
Herman Marquis on saxophone
Calvin Cameron on trombone
Mickey Hanson on trumpet
Bobby Ellis on trumpet

Radcliffe Bryan on guitar
[Unknown] on bass
Winston Grennan (*) on drums

Skully Simms on percussion
Winston Wright on organ

* User @ehites: "I'm 99% sure that is Winston Grennan (my late husband) on drums. Lloyd Knibbs had gone off on a cruise ship by this time....They were very different drummers... Lots of other familiar faces, many gone now...What a wonderful clip. Thank you for posting!" on    • Dynamite - Tommy McCook & The Superso...  


"In his evocative documentary series 'Deep Roots Music', the film-maker Howard Johnson, who has died aged 78, provided tantalising glimpses of the world of reggae that have seldom been seen by outsiders. Filmed in his native Jamaica in the summer of 1981 on a shoestring budget as one of the first commissions for the newly established Channel 4, it employed a fly-on-the-wall approach that put Johnson’s subjects at ease.

(...)

Jamaica’s recording studios constitute a notoriously insular realm, yet Johnson gleaned naturalistic footage of Prince Jammy engineering a dub mix at King Tubby’s studio, of the producer Bunny Lee busting wild dance moves, of Dennis Brown, Delroy Wilson and Johnny Clarke voicing their hits, the saxophonist Tommy McCook leading what is left of the Skatalites through some classic instrumental reveries, and the percussionist Scully Simms presiding over a Rastafari groundation ceremony, giving a tangible sense of reggae’s African roots.

Narrated by the Jamaican vocalist and broadcaster Mikey Dread, with historical commentary from the poet and folklorist Louise Bennett, 'Deep Roots Music' was one of the first television documentaries to take a serious look at a musical genre that has often been maligned by the media outside Jamaica, giving kudos to reggae just as big labels were ceasing to promote it after Bob Marley’s death."

(David Katz, "The Guardian", 2022)