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purchased by hotel guests as souvenirs. On
Saturday, 17 December 2016, the Half Moon Hotel held a ceremony to commemorate the album and the beginning of Island Records. The event was organised by the hotel's chairman, Guy Steuart III, and was attended by Blackwell, drummer Clarence "Tootsie" Bean, and Hayward's children Stuart and Silvia. The special guests autographed a print of the album cover, which is now on display at the hotel. In 2019, the Half Moon renamed its bar and grill "Hayward's" as a tribute to the pianist.
141:, in 1955 he returned to Jamaica. In 1959 Blackwell began working as the water ski instructor at the Half Moon Hotel, which was owned by his cousin Barbara DeLisser's father, Harold DeLisser. In their free time, Barbara and Chris frequented the local music venues and soon discovered a Bermudian jazz quartet led by the blind pianist Lance Hayward. Hayward had come to Jamaica for the first time in the winter of 1957–58, and returned for the winter of 1958–59. During his second season in Jamaica he met
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In his memoirs, Blackwell said of the album, "I wouldn't call the
Hayward recording a great, groundbreaking jazz album. It's a souvenir of a time and place and will take you to sunny, easygoing 1959 Montego Bay in an instant." Blackwell suggested that only around 200 copies sold, most of which were
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