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The bomba and plena traditions of Puerto Rico’s slums received respectability with the music of Rafael Cortijo (born Rafel Cortijo Verdejo). Inheriting his music group, which he renamed Cortijo con su Combo, when bandleader Mario Roman retired in 1954, Cortijo continued to be among the Caribbean’s many successful artists from …

Conrad Herwig is among New York’s even more prominent progressive/mainstream trombonists. He offers documented and/or performed with several well-known leaders, including however, not limited by Joe Henderson, Jack port DeJohnette, and Paquito d’Rivera. Herwig can be an alumnus from the well-known School of North Tx jazz program, an event that …

João Donato started his saving profession at 15, currently a challenging job within an association with an excellent professional, Altamiro Carrilho. He also documented with Bud Schank, Ron Carter, Airto Moreira, Elmir Deodato, Randy Brecker, Ray Barretto, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Astrud Gilberto, Cal Tjader, and many others, alongside many …

Your guitar duo of La Vienta was formed following a chance meeting inside a hallway in the University of Texas at El Paso. Hispanic guitarist Mario Otero and European-born Stefan Schyga melded their specific talents to create their 1993 debut, Jazzmenco, an recording that combines components of jazz, flamenco, traditional, …

Given birth to and raised in Havana, Cuba, pianist, composer, and arranger Jesus “Chuchito” Valdés, Jr. may be the third-generation manifestation of the Cuban jazz piano dynasty which includes his dad, Chucho Valdés, and grandfather, Bebo Valdés. The oldest of five siblings, Valdés was a kid prodigy, participating in and …

b. Patrick Walker, 5 Oct 1974, Pembroke Hall, Jamaica, Western Indies. Walker grew up inside a Christian family members; he was the 3rd kid of five and the only real man among his siblings. He later on relocated to the Waterhouse area of Kingston where he became mixed up in …

The Latin Jazz Quintet had an odd history. The short-lived group, which acquired a substantial amount of turnover during its lifestyle, is normally today best-known for just two periods (one for New Jazz and a far more obscure established for United Performers) where it was joined up with by Eric …

Chico O’Farrill was ideal within the thick from the Afro-Cuban and Latin waves that strike jazz in the past due ’40s and ’50s. His advanced composing for Latin big rings of the first ’50s was frequently daring, brassy, and anxious, yet he may possibly also attain a delicate, nearly classical …

Despite emigrating to america in 1975, Peru-born guitarist Ciro Hurtado has stayed among the finest performers of traditional Latin music. A founding member, musical movie director and manufacturer of Huayucaltia, Hurtado provides balanced use the group with single preformances and recordings.AS THE L.A. Situations known as him, “an elegantly refined …

Chico Batera, among the best-known Brazilian percussionists, spent some time working with top performers like Michel Legrand, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Elis Regina, Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell, Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, the Doorways, Milton Nascimento, Djavan, Chico Buarque (whom he continues to be accompanying as a normal person in Buarque’s …