Roberto Juan Rodríguez

Roberto Juan Rodríguez (Havana) is a Cuban-American jazz musician who is known for fusion of Latin music and Jewish Klezmer elements.^[1] Although not Jewish his father's Latin band regularly played at Jewish theatre, weddings and bar mitzvahs in Miami, giving the young percussionist an interest in Jewish music.^[2] In the 1980s he moved to New York, recording with Marc Ribot, as the drummer for Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and John Zorn.

Discography

El Danzon de Moises (Tzadik, 2002)
Baila! Gitano Baila! (Tzadik, 2004)
with Irving Fields - Oy Vey!!!...Olé!!! (Tzadik, 2006)
with Maurice El Médioni - Descarga Oriental (Piranha, 2006)
The First Basket (Tzadik, 2009)
Aguares: Book of Angels Volume 23 (Tzadik, 2014)

References

^ Jonathan L. Friedmann Perspectives on Jewish Music: Secular and Sacred 2009 - Page 32 "It informs Roberto Juan Rodriguez, whose fusion of Cuban and klezmer musical elements create a virtual diaspora — one he describes as a world that could have happened fifty or sixty years ago with a meeting of different diasporas in Cuba, ."
^ BBC Radio 3

External links

Roberto Juan Rodríguez discography at Discogs

[1] Jonathan L. Friedmann Perspectives on Jewish Music: Secular and Sacred 2009 - Page 32 "It informs Roberto Juan Rodriguez, whose fusion of Cuban and klezmer musical elements create a virtual diaspora — one he describes as a world that could have happened fifty or sixty years ago with a meeting of different diasporas in Cuba, ."

[2] BBC Radio 3

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