Laurel Aitken's career remains an example for the development of Jamaican music from it's roots in Jamaica to the world wide interest. Rico Rodriguez worked regularly with Laurel Aitken during the 1960s and 1970s. They came together during the so-called 3rd wave ska revival, e.g. for Laurel's The Story So Far (1995), or with Gaz Mayall's Ska Island project and the two had a kind of reunion in 2000 playing at Club Ska in London. Both are very different in type and character, but they have a common history as people developing Jamaican music in England, and both have - as far as we know - family origins in Cuba.