SAXOPHONIST Tony Greene plans to release a new album in the first quarter of 2016. Like his previous projects, it will be dominated by “easygoing instrumentals”.

Greene, who performs tomorrow with the Skool Band on the Caribbean Muzik Festival in The Bahamas, believes there is still room for instrumental music in Jamaica.

“Once you make a good record people will be interested, whether or not it’s an instrumental,” said Greene. “What I’m doing is an album to attract an audience.”

Tribute To The Duke was Greene’s previous album. An instrumental salute to producer Duke Reid’s Treasure Isle label, it was released in 2014.

A former member of Lloyd Parks and We The People Band, Greene went solo in the mid-1990s. At that time, there were a number of instrumental albums by fellow saxophonist Dean Fraser, trumpeter Micky Hanson and guitarists Maurice Gordon and Dwight Pinkney.

The Caribbean Muzik Festival was last held in Nassau, The Bahamas capital, in 1998. Third World, Etana, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Lady Saw, Barbadian soca star Alison Hinds, and Antiguan singer Causion are some of the acts on the October 28-31 event.

— Howard Campbell