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| Drummer Ignacio Berroa to Perform at Jazz Standard: July 16  Over the past 26 years, drummer Ignacio Berroa has boasted an impressive resume of sideman recording and performance duties with such maestros of the jazz world as Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean and Charlie Haden, as well as such Latin American masters as Mario Bauza, Tito Puente, Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Danilo Perez. In addition, he has also worked with Brazilian musical icons, Chico Buarque, Ivan Lins, Joao Bosco, Gal Gosta, and Lenny Andrade. But, remarkably, Berroa had yet to record his own project as a leader. That changed with the release of his exceptional debut, Codes, on Blue Note Records.Co-produced by Berroa, Rubalcaba and Ricardo (Eddy) Martinez, the eight-track album is a distinctive jazz-meets-Latin project that seamlessly weaves the intrinsically stylistic "codes" of both genres of music. The result is a CD where the jazz code of swing and blues meshes organically with the Afro-Cuban code of clave and congas to create a rare hybrid of scintillating tempos and romantic melodies-as opposed to a swinging affair merely ornamented with Afro-Cuban rhythms or a Latin date bereft of the jazz lilt. IGNACIO BERROA- drummer, DONNY McCASLIN - saxophone, RICKY RODRIGUEZ - bass and ROBERT RODRIGUEZ - piano to perform at JAZZ STANDARD, 116 East 27th Street, New York write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |