Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band

Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band: Rumba Buhaina

by Jim Santella
December 6, 2005

The music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers serves as a suitable theme for this album by Jerry Gonzalez and his Latin jazz band, since they exhibit the same kind of percussive drive with integrated melody that the hard bop drummer and his quintets shared with us for decades.

It's been almost two decades already for Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, which continues to excite with its fiery blend of Latin flavors and improvised adventure. ...

Geri Allen, and Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band, Headline 2009 Reno Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
March 5, 2009

AWARD-WINNING JAZZ ARTISTS GERI ALLEN, AND JERRY GONZALEZ AND THE FORT APACHE BAND HEADLINE 2009 RENO JAZZ FESTIVAL, APRIL 23-25

The best jazz musicians in the world travel to the University of Nevada, Reno each spring to perform and teach at the Reno Jazz Festival. This year, extraordinary pianist/composer and educator Geri Allen, and legendary percussionist/trumpeter and bandleader Jerry Gonzalez and his Fort Apache Band will share their talent and expertise with the festival's more than 10,000 attendees.

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Latin Sensation Jerry Gonzalez & The Fort Apache Band At NYC's Town Hall

Source: All About Jazz
January 27, 2006

New York City - Four time winners of Beyond Group of the Year in Downbeat Magazines Readers & Critics Polls, JERRY GONZALEZ AND THE FORT APACHE BAND are cited as the most influential modern Afro-Caribbean Jazz Group of the past 30 years. Blending complex Latin rhythms with impeccable jazz improvisations The New York Times calls the band “the best Latin Jazz group working."

Join us on Friday, March 3, 2006 at 8 pm, as this sizzling band takes the stage ...
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