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William Cepeda

William Cepeda - trombone, composer, producer William Cepeda comes from a well known family rooted in music. The Familia Cepeda is famous for their performances of folkloric music with African roots, the ‘Bomba,’ and as keepers of traditional Puerto Rican music for many years. The legendary Cepedas’ have produced many of Puerto Rico's most respected Afro-Rican percussionists, singers, dancers, composers and instrumentalists. Now, in William Cepeda, the young multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger who was nurtured by the twin spirits of bomba and bebop, Puerto Rico's potent rhythms and entrancing melodies radiate out to enthrall an international audience hungry for new Latin sounds. Despite his family’s intimate association with folkloric music, as a soloist Cepeda went his own way

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Wayne Wallace: To Hear From There

Read "To Hear From There" reviewed by Wilbert Sostre


Wayne Wallace continues to explore the infectious Afro-Cuban rhythms on To Here From There, the follow-up to his 2010 Grammy-nominated album, Bien Bien! (Patois Record, 2009).Wallace is a trombonist with vast experience that includes collaborations with artists such as Count Basie, Joe Henderson, Lionel Hampton, Sonny Rollins and Tito Puente. Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet ...

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Unity

Label: Casabe Records
Released: 2007

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The Extension

Label: Caracalla
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. The Extension 09:24 2. Wedding Song 05:31 3. Mambo Derivado 06:38 4. New World 09:31 5. Waiting For Galina 05:49 6. No Sweat 05:25 7. Wedding Song - Quartet 06:12 8. Nobody Knows 06:31

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My Roots and Beyond

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Released: 1999

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Bombazo

Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 1999

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My Roots & Beyond

Label: Blue Jackel
Released: 1999

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William Cepeda and Afrorican Jazz: My Roots & Beyond

Read "My Roots & Beyond" reviewed by Eric Saidel


William Cepeda is a man with a mission. His goal is aptly given by the title of his cd, his debut as a leader. He wants to introduce us to the music of his roots and beyond. Cepeda takes the rhythms, the dances, of Puerto Rican music, and uses them as the basis for Jazz. As ...

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William Cepeda and Afrorican JazzGrupo AfroBoricua: Bombazo

Read "Bombazo" reviewed by Eric Saidel


This CD represents William Cepeda's attempt to educate us in the ways and rhythms of the music of his native Puerto Rico. The music is based in the drums and rhythms brought to Puerto Rico as a consequence of the African slave trade. The melody instruments are, for the most part, limited to the voices of ...

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William Cepeda Afrorican Jazz: My Roots and Beyond

Read "My Roots and Beyond" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Look at the group name: it’s familiar, yet different. While this is Latin jazz, its flavors are not the usual – you get liquid synths and bomba drums, modern guitar and ancestral chants. “...[W]hile there are plrnty of jazz albums inspired by Cuban rhythms and music, there’s nothing quite of the same caliber out there for ...


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